On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 05:58:59PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote: > It has been over two years since RHEL-8 was released, and thus per the > platform build policy, we no longer need to support RHEL-7 as a build > target. So from the RHEL-7 perspective, we do not have to support > libssh v0.7 anymore now. > > Let's look at the versions from other distributions and operating > systems - according to repology.org, current shipping versions are: > > RHEL-8: 0.9.4 > Debian Buster: 0.8.7 > openSUSE Leap 15.2: 0.8.7 > Ubuntu LTS 18.04: 0.8.0 * > Ubuntu LTS 20.04: 0.9.3 > FreeBSD: 0.9.5 > Fedora 33: 0.9.5 > Fedora 34: 0.9.5 > OpenBSD: 0.9.5 > macOS HomeBrew: 0.9.5 > HaikuPorts: 0.9.5 > > * The version of libssh in Ubuntu 18.04 claims to be 0.8.0 from the > name of the package, but in reality it is a 0.7 patched up as a > Frankenstein monster with patches from the 0.8 development branch. > This gave us some headaches in the past already and so it never worked > with QEMU. All attempts to get it supported have failed in the past, > patches for QEMU have never been merged and a request to Ubuntu to > fix it in their 18.04 distro has been ignored: > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libssh/+bug/1847514 > > Thus we really should ignore the libssh in Ubuntu 18.04 in QEMU, too.
Agreed, if they're going to ship such a monster, at the very least they should be responsive to fixing the fallout it creates. Given the lack of action I agree with ditching libssh support on Ubuntu 18.04, despite it otherwise being supported distro target. > Fix it by bumping the minimum libssh version to something that is > greater than 0.8.0 now. Debian Buster and openSUSE Leap have the > oldest version and so 0.8.7 is the new minimum. > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <[email protected]> > --- > block/ssh.c | 59 ----------------------------------------------------- > configure | 19 +---------------- > 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 77 deletions(-) Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <[email protected]> Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|
