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Re: Bug#1013132: ITP: BabaSSL -- BabaSSL is a base library for modern cryptography and communication security protocols.



On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 02:21:43PM +0000, Lance Lin wrote:
> > AFAIK this library is forked from OpenSSL with some extensive
> > modifications to support new crypto technologies, do you think we need
> > to involve the Security Team to review whether this package can be
> > supported during the next stable release cycle?
> > Also this project has a planned rename, and I'm a bit concerned this
> > could cause some maintenance burden if the rename is not well
> > coordinated at the time we accept it into Debian.
> 
> I think any reviews and oversight are a good thing. In making this ITP,
> I figured it would cause discussion as it's a "drop-in" replacement for
> OpenSSL and the libraries have the same name. I wasn't sure if this was
> directly permitted so the ITP is a good place to have the discussion.
Have you already designed how will this be packaged to work as a drop-in
replacement for libssl3? I see quite a lot of problems with that,
both Policy ones and technical ones.


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