Re: OpenSSL 0.9.6/0.9.7, LDAP, SSH, friends

[Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org>]

Stephen Frost schrieb:
[...}
>   Currently in Debian there are quite a few packages which still link
>   against OpenSSL 0.9.6 (libldap2-tls, ssh-krb5, others).  Newer
>   packages are being linked against OpenSSL 0.9.7 (ssh, etc).  The
>   problem happens when these two end up getting linked into the same
>   running program. 
[...]
>   I don't have an overall solution to this, though I've heard much about
>   versioned symbols perhaps being an answer.  I know that's been
>   discussed on d-d some already though and don't know where that went.
[...]

Hello,
This sounds pretty similar to the problems with db2/db3/db4 which *were* 
solved with the introduction of versioned symbols.

As GnuTLS is getting more and more popular perhaps versioned symbols 
should be used there too before the problem is duplicated.
           just my 2c, cu andreas
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