On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 19:04:43 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 08:52:53 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > > > Package: release.debian.org > > Severity: normal > > User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org > > Usertags: transition > > > > Hello, > > > > I would like to ship jessie without GnuTLS 2.x (gnutls26) as it is > > dead upstream and _old_. The last upstream release was in February > > 2013, marking the end of a multi-year series of bugfix-only releases. > > > > Transitioning to GnuTLS 3.x is possible nowadays because GMP has > > switched to LGPLv3+/GPLv2+. > > > Apparently loading both versions of gnutls in the same process leads to > crashes. That screams at bugs in gnutls symbol versioning. Are you > aware of such issues? > So one issue seems to be that while gnutls26 and gnutls28 use versioned symbols, they use the same versions for their symbols. Meaning you get the same issues as without versions, i.e. calling some functions from each. Is there a good reason gnutls28 can't use its own separate set of symbol versions? Cheers, Julien
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