Re: Michael Paquier 2016-09-15 
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> On Thu, Sep 15, 2016 at 8:57 PM, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinn...@iki.fi> wrote:
> > I backpatched this to 9.5, but not further than that. The functions this
> > modified were moved around in 9.5, so the patch wouldn't apply as is. It
> > wouldn't be difficult to back-patch further if there's demand, but I'm not
> > eager to do that until someone complains.
> 
> Not going older than 9.5 may be fine:
> https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2014/12/23/the-new-release-strategy/
> https://wiki.freebsd.org/OpenSSL
> As far as I can see 1.0.2 would be supported until Dec 2019, so that
> would just overlap with 9.4's EOL.

I'm afraid it's not that easy - Debian 9 (stretch) will release at the
beginning of next year, and apt.postgresql.org will want to build
9.2/9.3/9.4 for that distribution. I guess yum.postgresql.org will
have the same problem with the next Fedora release.

Christoph


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