Bug#867140: cqrlog: Please migrate to openssl1.1 in Buster

[Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc>]

On 2017-10-13 08:49:21 [+0100], Colin Tuckley wrote:
> > this is a remainder about the openssl transition [0]. We really want to
> > remove libssl1.0-dev from unstable for Buster. I will raise the severity
> > of this bug to serious in a month. Please react before that happens.
> 
> I've talked to upstream about this. Apparently it will be a *lot* of
> work due to the API changes without a soname bump. As a result upstream
> are giving the required changes a very low priority.

Whose soname name bump? cqrlog's or openssl's?
The new openssl library arrived last year in unstable. Was there any
progress on that topic? Is there a reference to upstream's bugzilla /
mainling list about this?

> Please do *not* increase the priority of this bug.
> 
> The correct thing to do here is to make the old and new versions of
> openssl coexist.
This was done for Stretch. For Buster we want the old library out.

Sebastian