[ovirt-users] Proposing fix for EL6 m2crypto memory leak

[Dan Kenigsberg]

On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 12:42:19PM +0100, Sven Kieske wrote:
> 
> 
> On 28/10/14 12:28, Daniel Helgenberger wrote:
> > But it is a short term solution until the issue is fixed or 
> > El6 obsoleted (well, this might be quite soon for a protect like oVirt?)
> 
> Well I doubt EL6 support will be dropped from ovirt, as downstream
> still requires it to work on EL6 in the future, EL6 is still in
> production phase.

It won't happen in ovirt-3.6, but support for el6 would be dropped at
some point in the future. Backporting packages an re-solving bugs that
have been already solved in el7 is little fun, and drains our
developement and QE resources. We should start thinking how and when to
phase el6 out.

Dan.