Could we move to GnuTLS 3.6.13 minimum and Ubuntu 22.04 as our primary testing distribution?

[Andreas Schneider]

On Monday, 24 October 2022 23:27:44 CEST Andrew Bartlett via samba-technical 
wrote:
> (Corrected subject, I realised we couldn't go GnuTLS 3.7 and don't need
> to so far)

I think you have to ask metze when he has the time to update sn-devel :-)

 
> On Tue, 2022-10-25 at 10:24 +1300, Andrew Bartlett via samba-technical
> 
> wrote:
> > It is a bit of work, but I think it would be very worthwhile to
> > upgrade
> > to Ubuntu 22.04 (replacing Ubuntu 18.04) and GnuTLS 3.6.13 as our
> > minimum requirements.
> > 
> > We would also need to update OpenSUSE Leap 15.3 to OpenSUSE Leap 15.4
> > as like Ubuntu 18.04 it doesn't have the package.
> > 
> > For CentOS 7, we are already pulling GnutTLS 3.6.16 from an appstream
> > repo it seems.
> > 
> > This would allow us to remove the last of the in-tree AES code,  as
> > well as automatically test the new PBKDF2 based password change code
> > in
> > SAMR.
> > 
> > This came up because this MR:
> > https://gitlab.com/samba-team/samba/-/merge_requests/2753
> > 
> > is not automatically tested as it is behind an #ifdef not triggered
> > on
> > Ubuntu 18.04
> > 
> > What do folks think?
> > 
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