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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Centos stream of batpiss
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2024 02:49:46 -0000 (UTC)
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On Fri, 07 Jun 2024 18:09:09 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

> ... and found a dependency on libc.so.6
> which draws a line in the sand between Ubuntu 20 and Ubuntu 22 (and
> their Debian equivalents).  I've always prided myself on creating
> binaries that will run on any version of an OS, but this dream has been
> derailed.  We've told our Ubuntu 20 customers that if they want TLS 1.3
> they have no choice but to upgrade their OS to Ubuntu 22.
> Only then can we send them new binaries.  By the same token, our older
> binaries, which only support TLS 1.1, will not run under Ubuntu 22 ...

Interesting. Were you able to track down the incompatibility any further? 
Because it’s always been my understanding that binaries linked against 
older versions of libc.so.6 will continue to run against newer versions, 
and a lot of work is done with symbol versioning in glibc to ensure this.