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Possible one-more-absolutely-last-time FreeRADIUS upload?



Basically, just before the freeze happened, I finally had a user who's
locally-rebuilt FreeRADIUS .deb failed due to the libltdl LTDL_GLOBAL removal.
[1]

I suggested he try the patch at [1], and he reported success.

As such, I was going to check over and apply this patch to the package this
weekend. And then cameth the freeze...

Anyway, I was wondering if it would be OK if I uploaded a version with the
patch... It should be fairly non-intrusive, since it only affects Makefiles
that are not used during the Debian archive build (due to OpenSSL/GPL
conflicts) but which people routinely build local versions to gain the
functionality of.

Given more time, I would change the system to build a version with OpenSSL
based on a DEBIAN_BUILD_FLAGS value of some kind, but I'm pretty sure that
control-file trickery during builds is something I don't want to be playing
with during the freeze. In fact, I don't want to play with it at all. -_-;

So I guess the question is, can I make a new upload to include a patch that is
only relevant for local package builders? If not, that's OK, I intend to
maintain a backports.org package of 1.1.0 which will hopefully have GnuTLS
before release and hence be binary distributable.

If I _do_ make this upload, I'd also like to solve #306007 by adding Suggests:
libdate-manip-perl to the Suggests list for freeradius-dialupadmin, since I
said I'd do that with whatever upload I did next.

There's no Debian bug report for this libltdl thing because people always email
me directly about it. I blame this on the very clear statements in the bug
reports about EAP/TLS (#266229 and #289253) that Debian doesn't provide EAP/TLS
at this moment. ^_^

[1] http://bugs.freeradius.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75

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