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Re: (ITS#7367) [PATCH] MozNSS: update list of supported cipher suites



--On Wednesday, October 03, 2012 8:33 AM +0000 jvcelak@redhat.com wrote:

> I understand that you don't want to support older OpenLDAP versions,
> builds  with non-default libraries, etc. But the users will rather use
> the package  from their distribution, instead of compiling it by
> themselves. And we cannot  support users' builds, because we do not have
> the sources and the build  environment under control. And we cannot
> rebase the packages freely.

Redhat needs to come up with a solution to this problem, because they are 
putting their users in a catch-22 situation.  Either they get support from 
RedHat for a package that will not work, or they build their own, and can't 
get support from RedHat.  There are reasons new *patch* level releases are 
made.  I see zero reason why RedHat cannot update the versions of OpenLDAP 
they ship since the fixes are incremental.  No one should be running 
OpenLDAP 2.4.23 as a *production server*.  Keep the RPM version string the 
same, and note the upstream release in the RPM patchlevel, if that is 
necessary, but fix the actual code to be current.

This is why the Debian folks *wisely* recommend that people do *not* use 
the distribution build for a production server.

As long as RedHat keeps up this policy, the only advice ever for RedHat 
customers is to build their own RPMs, and get support elsewhere, since 
RedHat clearly can't keep working server versions together for their 
customers.  And then that leads to the question of what exactly they are 
paying RedHat for support for in the first place.

--Quanah

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Quanah Gibson-Mount
Sr. Member of Technical Staff
Zimbra, Inc
A Division of VMware, Inc.
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