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

[Andrew Bartlett]

(Corrected subject, I realised we couldn't go GnuTLS 3.7 and don't need
to so far)

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? 
> 
> Andrew Bartlett
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