On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 11:07:41AM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > > > apt-get remove --purge libssl0.9.7 gives me tons of packages. Just > > > an estimation: We need to repack half of all packages then? > > > > NO.[1] > > > > All that needs to happen is that GPLed packages without an OpenSSL > > linking exception either need to: > > > > 1) Get a linking exception. > > 2) Stop linking with OpenSSL. > > How about indirect linking with OpenSSL? I'd really like to have libldap > use OpenSSL again but I was told this breaks the LDAP support of a lot > of packages since linking LDAP would pull OpenSSL. Seems that part of developers think that indirect linking with OpenSSL is ok, and part think it's not. What is an official statement? regards fEnIo -- ,''`. Bartosz Fenski | mailto:fenio@debian.org | pgp:0x13fefc40 | irc:fEnIo : :' : 32-050 Skawina - Glowackiego 3/15 - w. malopolskie - Poland `. `' phone:+48602383548 | proud Debian maintainer and user `- http://skawina.eu.org | jid:fenio@jabber.org | rlu:172001
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