Re: curl situation is intolerable

[Thomas Bushnell BSG <tb@becket.net>]

Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes:

> On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 09:46:26PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
>> I don't care about the callback.  The package maintainers have the job
>> of deciding whether the packages implement the same ABI or not.
>> DECIDE.
>
>> If the answer is "yes", then they should both be drop-in replacements,
>> and Provide the same virtual package.
>
> That isn't really an option so long as we have the GPL/OpenSSL license
> issue to deal with, regardless of whether the ABI matches.

I'm not sure I see what that is, but regardless, if it is so, then
they must be separate libraries with nonconflicting packages.

All this dithering about which way to go is the problem, not the
solution.