Re: [PATCH] Remove dependency on deprecated Net::SMTP::SSL

On 20 Nov 2016, at 19:53, brian m. carlson [off-list ref] wrote:

On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 04:18:16PM -0500, Mike Fisher wrote:

quoted

Refactor send_message() to remove dependency on deprecated
Net::SMTP::SSL:

<http://search.cpan.org/~rjbs/Net-SMTP-SSL-1.04/lib/Net/SMTP/SSL.pm#DEPRECATED>

As much as I hate to say this, I think this is going to cause
compatibility problems.  Net::SMTP is part of core Perl (as of v5.7.3),
but the version you want to rely on (which you did not provide an
explicit dependency on) is from October 2014.

That basically means that no Perl on a Red Hat or CentOS system is going
to provide that support, since RHEL 7 was released in June 2014.
Providing an updated Git on those platforms would require replacing the
system Perl or parts of it, which would be undesirable.  This would
affect Debian 7 as well.

We currently support Perl 5.8 [0], so if you want to remove support for
Net::SMTP::SSL, I'd recommend a solution that works with that version.

[0] I personally believe we should drop support for Perl older than
5.10.1 (if not newer), but that's my opinion and it isn't shared by
other list regulars.
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Net::SMTP::SSL is marked as DEPRECATED on FreeBSD ports tree and will be removed in 2017-03-31. When it happens users will not be able to run git-send-email anymore. I’m considering to add Mike’s patch to FreeBSD ports tree as an alternative but it would be good to have a official solution for this problem.

FreeBSD bug report can be found at https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=214335

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