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| 2023-03-09 |
Slackware phasing out unsupported older packages |
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Slackware Linux is not only the world's oldest surviving Linux distribution, it is also one of the most conservative when it comes to adopting new releases and publishing new versions. This puts Slackware is a challenging position as its stable branch is sometimes running software considered obsolete (and unsupported) by the upstream developers, which is then tangled with other older dependencies. The Slackware change log shares an example of this issue, with an older version of OpenSSL at the heart of the concern: "At this point nothing remains linked with openssl-1.1.1 except for python2 and modules, and vsftpd. I think nobody cares about trying to force python2 to use openssl3... it's EOL but still a zombie, unfortunately. I have seen some patches for vsftpd and intend to take a look at them. We've bumped PHP to 8.2 and just gone ahead and killed 8.0 and 8.1. Like 7.4, 8.0 is not compatible with openssl3 and it doesn't seem worthwhile to try to patch it. And with 8.2 already out for several revisions, 8.1 does not seem particularly valuable. If you make use of PHP you should be used to it being a moving target by now." |
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