Re: F37 proposal: Deprecate openssl1.1 package (System-Wide Change)

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On Fri, 2022-06-24 at 11:42 +0200, Miro Hrončok wrote:
> On 24. 06. 22 11:23, Dmitry Belyavskiy wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 11:20 AM Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@xxxxxxxxxx 
> > <mailto:berrange@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> > 
> >     On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 11:13:13AM +0200, Dmitry Belyavskiy wrote:
> >      > On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 11:02 PM Miro Hrončok <mhroncok@xxxxxxxxxx
> >     <mailto:mhroncok@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> >      >
> >      > > On 22. 06. 22 21:05, Vipul Siddharth wrote:
> >      > > > We are going to deprecate openssl1.1 package, stop shipping the
> >      > > > corresponding devel package, and stop respecting crypto policies in
> >      > > > openssl1.1 package itself.
> >      > >
> >      > > +1 to deprecating it
> >      > >
> >      >
> >      > Great!
> >      >
> >      > -1 to stop shipping the devel package, this would mean we cannot build at
> >      > > least:
> >      > >
> >      > > - Python 2.7
> >      > >    despite our long term efforts, many things still need that, e.g. gimp,
> >      > > firefox (some builds do, then some don't), thunderbird etc., see
> >      > > https://fedora.portingdb.xyz/ <https://fedora.portingdb.xyz/>
> >      > >
> >      > > Or Python 3.6 (shipped for developers targeting RHEL 7/8).
> >      > >
> >      > > As long as OpenSSL 1.1 gets security fixes in RHEL 8, could we please
> >      > > leave the
> >      > > devel package?
> >      > >
> >      >
> >      > I'm not sure that if we don't remove the devel package, we will provide
> >      > strong enough motivation to get rid of the deprecating packages.
> > 
> >     If the openssl maintainers really strongly want to remove the
> >     devel pacakge, then don't call this deprecation because that
> >     is misleading. Call this purging openssl1.1 from the entire
> >     distro, such that it can only be used by 3rd party apps who
> >     have previously compiled against older Fedora openssl-devel.
> >     Be open about fact that this will cause FTBFS for any Fedora
> >     packages that stil uses openssl1 and their removal from the
> >     distro if they can't port to openssl3 very quickly.
> > 
> > Do I correctly understand that the situation with Python is the most problematic?
> > Are we able to solve it somehow?
> > 
> > What I'm afraid of is that if we just declare the deprecation, we will stay 
> > with this package forever.
> 
> Not forever, just until Python 2.7 is removed :D
> 
> Seriously thou, my proposal is:
> 
>   - deprecate it now
>   - announce it goes away when RHEL 8 maintenance support ends
> 
> Following the guidelines for deprecated packages:
> https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/deprecating-packages/
> 
>    # This is when RHEL 8 maintenance support is expected to end
>    # https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata
>    # The life-cycle time spans and dates are subject to adjustment
>    Provides: deprecated() = 20290531
> 
> You are going to support OpenSSL 1.1 in RHEL 8 until that day anyway.
> 
> This is also when we plan to remove Python 3.6:
> https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/python-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/thread/W74WYEVGYAE57KVLCG73I75LZYKKUMXS/
> 
> And if Python 2.7 isn't removed by then, we can rip it out together with 
> OpenSSL 1.1 in Fedora 50.
> 

Are you going to maintain it till Fedora 50 in the meantime?

Simo.

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