Re: openssl too old and what to do about it
On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 06:34:09PM CEST, ng0 <ng0@we.make.ritual.n0.is> said:
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> Hi,
>
> I am in the position where I have to run at least one Debian
> stable based server, and with the recent upgrade of a search
> engine, I can no longer use its proxy functionality.
> This would require a version of OpenSSL which is not available in
> Debian stable at this point.
>
> When is the next release candidate of Debian planed which would
> version bump openssl?
> If it's more than half a year from now (or in general):
> It might be a bad idea to build openssl from source, but I'm
> already running many things from source as I can't run guix at
> this moment on the server, to be able to use some software.
> Would building openssl from source and then having an update
> later on from Debian break something or this process break
> something in general?
> I am not very familiar with building for Debian with the debian
> specific tools, my focus is at other systems.
>
You can also get the openssl from backports and keep your stable, but
with a backported recent openssl.
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