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Re: [2002-02-16] Release Status Update



On Sat, 16 Feb 2002, Jeff Licquia wrote:
> One of my packages (cupsys) can be compiled with SSL support, and
> could benefit greatly from that.  I've been waiting for the transition
> to be complete before turning that on.  Will there be time, or will
> packages like mine just not have an opportunity to get crypto?

If your crypto support means linking to openssl (or maybe gnutls), and it
does not implement any crypto of its own, you may actually have a chance, if
the rest of the crypto red-tape gets cleared fast enough for woody.

Otherwise, I would not bet on any measurable chance of getting a
crypto-enabled version of the package in main (instead of non-US/main) for
woody.

And you don't even have crypto-enabled packages in non-US/main (or somewhere
else) yet, WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU THINKING?!  That means they have gone
through none, or very little testing at all. Trying to get them into woody
would be a Not Very Bright Idea(tm).

You, as a maintainer, want your package crypto-enabled, and in main for
woody?  They you are already nearly out-of-time, get them in non-US and test
them, or something like that.

-- 
  "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh



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