Re: [E-devel] [EGIT] [core/efl] master 01/01: blacklist gnutls < 2.12.16

[David S. <on...@gm...>]

On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 08:07:39 +0000 Michael Blumenkrantz
<mic...@gm...> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 8:03 AM, David Seikel <on...@gm...>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 11 Mar 2013 07:47:37 +0000 Michael Blumenkrantz
> > <mic...@gm...> wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 7:33 AM, David Seikel <on...@gm...>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Sun, 10 Mar 2013 23:17:47 -0700 Mike Blumenkrantz -
> > > > Enlightenment Git <no-...@en...> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > discomfitor pushed a commit to branch master.
> > > > >
> > > > > commit a91814f0e0606068a0854a9e8de8d42456c1703b
> > > > > Author: Mike Blumenkrantz <m.b...@sa...>
> > > > > Date:   Mon Mar 11 06:16:12 2013 +0000
> > > > >
> > > > >     blacklist gnutls < 2.12.16
> > > > >
> > > > >     in a move which is sure to make me hugely unpopular once
> > > > > again, I'm blacklisting a huge number of gnutls versions
> > > > > which I can't compile because at least some of them are 100%
> > > > > broken and will not work. the rage forecast is looking to see
> > > > > some hot winds blowing in from the debian/ubuntu quagmires,
> > > > > though users from more modern regions are not likely to
> > > > > notice any changes
> > > >
> > > > As the proud owner of a less than one year old Ubuntu, let me
> > > > be the first to rain on your parade.
> > > >
> > > > 2.12.14 here, and it works fine.  :-P
> > > >
> > >
> > > as the not-so-proud owner of that exact same ubuntu version, no it
> > > doesn't, and if you argue with me about it you're even more wrong
> > > than you were when you made this statement.
> >
> > Our respective values of "works fine" must differ then.  B-)
> >
> 
> there's some connections that it will fail on 100% of the time. you
> will never notice this unless you are explicitly using ecore-con for
> ssl in connections with these sites, which few (no) efl applications
> do at present

Yep, that's a value of "doesn't work fine" I never thought of.  I bow
to your wider experience in this matter.  At least until my next EFL
update fails, then I'll just fart in your general direction, even if
it's not at all related to this.  Well, you did say you expect "hot
winds blowing", that's the sort of hot wind you get when I bend over.

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