Re: Qt and OpenSSL transition metadata in relation to Mumble package
On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 01:55:55 +0000, Chris Knadle wrote:
> Emilio Pozuelo Monfort:
> > On 19/03/16 19:23, Chris Knadle wrote:
> >> Greetings.
> >>
> >> Executive summary:
> >> I'd like to know if there is metadata that can be added to the Qt4 and Qt5
> >> packages (qt4-x11 and qtbase-opensource-src) which will indicate that they
> >> need to be binNMUed for OpenSSL transitions at nearly the same time that
> >> Mumble gets binNMUed.
> [...]
> >> Is this possible?
> >
> > There's no way to express that kind of relationship. Not unless you get into
> > complex territory which isn't really worth it in this case. Normally binNMUs
> > are scheduled at the same time, so in theory this shouldn't be such a big
> > issue. And it would only affect unstable users, only for a short amount of
> > time.
>
> Ehhh... okay. The last OpenSSL binNMU had an 11-day difference between
> Mumble getting rebuilt and qt4-x11 being rebuilt in Sid. That's a short
> time in release terms, but a long time in terms of users finding Mumble
> broken and waiting for it to be fixed.
>
> Either way I have my answer. Thank you very much.
>
What would it take to fix qt to properly link with libssl?
Cheers,
Julien
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