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Updated the Debian Stretch speculation bit at the end of the hashpolicy document with latest results from the forum thread.

wyoung 2019-01-09 12:31 trunk
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artifacts with SHA3 names, because once you do that your recalcitrant
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coworkers will no longer be able to collaborate.
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<h2>A Pure SHA3 Future</h2>
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-At some point in the future, years from now, after everybody has finally
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-upgraded to Fossil 2.0 or later, the default hash policy will probably
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-change to "sha3", or maybe even "shun-sha1". By the time that happens,
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-you will probably already be using SHA3 on all your projects and so you
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-are unlikely to notice.
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+At some point in the future, after everybody has finally upgraded to
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+Fossil 2.0 or later, the default hash policy will probably change to
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+"sha3", or maybe even "shun-sha1". By the time that happens, you will
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+probably already be using SHA3 on all your projects and so you are
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+unlikely to notice.
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This probably won't happen until after all of the operating systems
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shipping binary versions of Fossil switch to Fossil 2.1 or later. The
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-big standout is Debian Stretch (9.0), which is not expected to be
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-replaced until March 2019, and it won't fall out of support until June
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-2022. We do not yet know if we will switch the default hash policy
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-during that window or not until after Debian 9 is fully out of support.
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+big standout is Debian Stretch (v9), since it still ships Fossil 1.37
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+due to its stable packages policy. Stretch will be the current release
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+version of Debian until "some time mid 2019" according to [the latest
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+published release plan][deb10]. Debian Stretch will then remain in
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+support until June 2022. We do not yet know if we will switch the
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+default hash policy during that window or not until after Stretch is
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+fully out of support.
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+[deb10]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2018/04/msg00006.html
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167 artifacts with SHA3 names, because once you do that your recalcitrant
168 coworkers will no longer be able to collaborate.
169
170 <h2>A Pure SHA3 Future</h2>
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172 At some point in the future, years from now, after everybody has finally
173 upgraded to Fossil 2.0 or later, the default hash policy will probably
174 change to "sha3", or maybe even "shun-sha1". By the time that happens,
175 you will probably already be using SHA3 on all your projects and so you
176 are unlikely to notice.
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178 This probably won't happen until after all of the operating systems
179 shipping binary versions of Fossil switch to Fossil 2.1 or later. The
180 big standout is Debian Stretch (9.0), which is not expected to be
181 replaced until March 2019, and it won't fall out of support until June
182 2022. We do not yet know if we will switch the default hash policy
183 during that window or not until after Debian 9 is fully out of support.
 
 
 
 
 
 
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167 artifacts with SHA3 names, because once you do that your recalcitrant
168 coworkers will no longer be able to collaborate.
169
170 <h2>A Pure SHA3 Future</h2>
171
172 At some point in the future, after everybody has finally upgraded to
173 Fossil 2.0 or later, the default hash policy will probably change to
174 "sha3", or maybe even "shun-sha1". By the time that happens, you will
175 probably already be using SHA3 on all your projects and so you are
176 unlikely to notice.
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178 This probably won't happen until after all of the operating systems
179 shipping binary versions of Fossil switch to Fossil 2.1 or later. The
180 big standout is Debian Stretch (v9), since it still ships Fossil 1.37
181 due to its stable packages policy. Stretch will be the current release
182 version of Debian until "some time mid 2019" according to [the latest
183 published release plan][deb10]. Debian Stretch will then remain in
184 support until June 2022. We do not yet know if we will switch the
185 default hash policy during that window or not until after Stretch is
186 fully out of support.
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189 [deb10]: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2018/04/msg00006.html
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