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Asking advice for libssh2



Hello team,

I'm the maintainer of libssh2 [1]. There was an old bug with this package asking to switch from libgcrypt to openssl [2].

The issue was with the license openssl that had consequences with its rdeps.

The ftp-master team came up with a solution for the OpenSSL license [3]. This solution allows to use openssl in libssh2.

Therefore I uploaded a new package for libssh2 yesterday, hoping the libssh2-with-openssl package will be available for bullseye.

But because of the hard freeze, this has to be manually allowed.

I recently added autopkgtests to the libssh2 package and try to maintain as clean as possible, but I'm aware this is a key package so changes may be potentially dangerous, especially before a release.

Therefore I'm asking your opinion on whether it would be wise to release libssh2-with-openssl in bullseye? The package uses libgcrypt for a long time now. And on second thought I wouldn't mind waiting another release for what could potentially break other packages.

Thanks in advance for your feedback

/Nicolas

[1] https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/libssh2
[2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=668271
[3] http://meetbot.debian.net/debian-ftp/2020/debian-ftp.2020-03-13-20.02.html

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