Just FTR, I opened Ruby upstream ticket asking about the OpenSSL 1.1.0 support: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/12830 Not sure if you'll have also some Fedora specific tracker .... Vít Dne 10.10.2016 v 16:29 Tomas Mraz napsal(a): > On So, 2016-10-08 at 13:37 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> Tomas Mraz wrote: >>> At worst if the patching of a package is highly non-trivial and the >>> upstream is not responsive we might have to drop the package from >>> Fedora. >>> >>> We do not want to keep 1.0.2 devel around as that could make it to >>> look >>> like the 1.0.2 is still fully "supported" in Fedora and there would >>> be >>> no incentive to switch to 1.1.0. Also to get any new features from >>> upstream OpenSSL we have to move to newer versions as they are >>> released >>> as the old versions get only bug fixes. >> IMHO, this is not acceptable. If the API of a library changes enough >> to >> warrant a compat package, you have to provide the -devel for the >> compat >> package as well. Dropping all the packages that don't build against >> the new >> incompatible version from Fedora is not a reasonable plan. > We will work on porting the dependent packages to the new API. If by > some reasonable deadline there are still some packages that are not > dead by other reasons and we are unable to port them we can add -devel > to the compat package. Note though that small changes in such packages > will be needed anyway as the include files of the compat package will > have to be in non-default include directory. (If the package doesn't > use pkgconfig to find the needed CFLAGS automatically.) > _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
