[issue20981] ssl doesn't build anymore with OpenSSL 0.9.7 or older: X509_check_ca

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: For ancient OSes such as RHEL 4, I would suggest people request backports from the OS vendor if desired. -- ___ Python tracker ___

[issue20981] ssl doesn't build anymore with OpenSSL 0.9.7 or older: X509_check_ca

Mișu Moldovan added the comment: For the record, this is an issue in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 too. For RHEL 4, "Extended" support ends on March 31, 2017, according to https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata -- ___ Python tracker <

[issue20981] ssl doesn't build anymore with OpenSSL 0.9.7 or older: X509_check_ca

Antoine Pitrou added the comment: 0.9.7 is truly ancient. I'd rather not add more conditional code and let people maintain their fork of Python if they already maintain a fork of OpenSSL. -- nosy: +alex, dstufft, giampaolo.rodola, janssen resolution: -> rejected status: open -> closed

[issue20981] ssl doesn't build anymore with OpenSSL 0.9.7 or older: X509_check_ca

Mișu Moldovan added the comment: Starting with 2.7.9, this affects the 2.7 branch as well. Please note that it's not only out-of-maintenance FreeBSD versions that are affected, but also a current version of Solaris, namely Solaris 10. The end of "Premier" support for Solaris 10 is January 2018

[issue20981] ssl doesn't build anymore with OpenSSL 0.9.7 or older: X509_check_ca

David Bolen added the comment: I suppose it depends on what the current policy (if any) is. Not sure how far back we would officially claim to support even today. We have a 6.4 buildbot due to history, but it's never made the stable list, and is probably in a failing state as much or more as

[issue20981] ssl doesn't build anymore with OpenSSL 0.9.7 or older: X509_check_ca

STINNER Victor added the comment: If we drop support of FreeBSD older than 8.x for example, we should make it official. Mention it at least in the What's New in Python 3.5 and/or the PEP 11. What do you think? -- ___ Python tracker

[issue20981] ssl doesn't build anymore with OpenSSL 0.9.7 or older: X509_check_ca

David Bolen added the comment: Both of my FreeBSD buildbots are quite ancient (particularly so with FreeBSD/6.4), and mostly still exist because of lack of pressure to change them, and at least for a while having an older, legacy FreeBSD buildbot was of some use. I have no plans on upgrading

[issue20981] ssl doesn't build anymore with OpenSSL 0.9.7 or older: X509_check_ca

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[issue20981] ssl doesn't build anymore with OpenSSL 0.9.7 or older: X509_check_ca

Stefan Krah added the comment: FreeBSD 6.4 is EOL though, for quite some time already: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2010-September/001344.html Maybe we should ask the buildbot owner to upgrade to something newer. -- nosy: +skrah

[issue20981] ssl doesn't build anymore with OpenSSL 0.9.7 or older: X509_check_ca

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