Re: libelf now depends on openssl

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On Fri, 2021-01-15 at 09:33 -0600, Michael Catanzaro wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 9:47 am, Simo Sorce <simo@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Which is one of the reasons we do not admit boringssl in RHEL.
> > 
> > There is of course no problem to have it in Fedora, but if this is
> > something that is going to end up in RHEL one day, it would be better
> > to do the work now to make it use OpenSSL rather than scramble later.
> 
> It won't even wind up in Fedora since we need WebKit to remain 
> GPL-compatible. So WebRTC stays disabled until upstream finds a way to 
> get rid of boringssl. The plan is to switch from libwebrtc to GStreamer.
> 
> So not such a big deal for me right now, but might be a big deal for 
> anyone hoping to transition to openssl 3.0 anytime other than exactly 
> the same time debuginfod does.

The transition to openssl 3.0 may be a little bumpy for libraries
indeed, but there isn't much we can do about it. We'll definitely try
to minimize impact as much as possible.

-- 
Simo Sorce
RHEL Crypto Team
Red Hat, Inc



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