Re: OpenSSL 1.1.0

[Bernd Zeimetz <bernd@bzed.de>]

On 2016-11-15 14:43, Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:

> I *really* disagree with that. Swtiching libssl-dev to provide 
> libssl1.1-dev
> means that some apps/libs will get automatically recompiled and some of 
> them
> might even not FTBFS (because for example, they are ready to use 1.1).

If a 1.1.0 ready package ftbfs when libssl-dev points to 1.0 it is a bug 
that
should be fixed anyway. There is no real reason not to support both 
versions.


> That means we left the door open to crashes due to mixed libssl 
> versions.
>
> By letting libssl-dev provide libssl1.0 we do not open this door, and 
> we let
> maintainers decide on a per-basis case.

And we have to maintain two openssl versions trough the release cycle.



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