Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] send-email: Net::SMTP::SSL is obsolete, use only when necessary

From: Dennis Kaarsemaker <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2017 21:42:23 +0200

On Thu, 2017-06-01 at 07:50 +0900, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Dennis Kaarsemaker <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > Second ping. This problem is not going away, so if this solution is not
> > acceptable, I'd like to know what needs to be improved.
> 
> Perhaps you needed to actually test with older installation that
> people have, it seems, between pings.  Immediately after this was
> merged to 'master', we start getting bug reports X-<.
> 
> Eric Biggers' message 
> 
>     https://public-inbox.org/git/<[email-masked]>;
> 
> seems to indicate that we should cut off at 3.01 not 1.28?
> 
> Thanks.

Apologies for that. The version numbering of libnet is *weird*. The
libnet version this was fixed in *is* 1.28, but the Net::SMTP module in
 libnet version 1.28 has version 2.33.

I did test with some older perl versions, but not far enough back it
seems :(

D.