Re: Bug#325643: libcurl and moc

[Domenico Andreoli <cavok@debian.org>]

On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 09:40:17PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 the mental interface of Daniel Stenberg told:
> > 
> > The problem you have with libcurl and OpenSSL/GnuTLS is not strictly an 
> > "upstream problem".
> > 
> > In the curl project there are some ideas floating around that are being 
> > discussed on how this could be fixed for Debian (and other distros) but that is 
> > only because they don't do it themselves, it is not because it is an actual 
> > problem in the curl camp. It is more of an indirect annoyance.
> > 
> > Also, discussions are only talk. There is no fix or solution in the work for 
> > the nearest period of time. Everyone's invited to come help sort it out.
> >
> > In my view, there's only one available work-around for the short to mid term, 
> > and that is to use a separate .so file for libcurl built with GnuTLS.
> 
> My resume on Daniels point of view is to get a different .so name
> for gnutls in the very short term and kick off ssl in Debian apps
> midterm! Note, this will _not be done upstream_! This is not as hard
> as Marco's demand, but we have to do it in that way. There are some
> curl based packages like oggvorbistools, moc etc which are at the
> moment uninstallable and herewith I invite Domenico to provide a
> package where gnutls and ssl can exist beside in one installation.
> For me, as a not much experienced voluntary I'll spend some spare
> time to understand the technique on how to do that and hopefully can
> assist Domenico to create a package.

ok, we are hooked into the libflac6 transition, let's start the curl one.

my wish is to upload curl 7.14.1 with the following package layout:

 - curl                  (OpenSSL, linked to libcurl-openssl.so.3)
 - libcurl3              (GnuTLS, soname: libcurl.so.3)
 - libcurl3-openssl      (OpenSSL, soname: libcurl-openssl.so.3)
 - libcurl3-gssapi       (OpenSSL, MIT Kerberos 5)
 - libcurl3-dev          (OpenSSL, depends: libssl-dev)
 - libcurl3-openssl-dev  (GnuTLS, depends: libgnutls-dev)
 - libcurl3-dbg

this way libcurl3 and libcurl3-openssl can be contemporarily installed.

curl command line depends on package libcurl3-openssl. BTW, is
libcurl3-openssl legal or it should be libcurl-openssl3?

any more comments?

cheers
domenico

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