Re: HEADS UP: openssl engine-related FTBFS and Boost

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On Fri, Jul 05, 2024 at 02:06:33PM +0200, Clemens Lang wrote:
> I’m sure Dmitry would be happy to do that if we as a community could 
> agree to no longer support OpenSSL ENGINEs, but it doesn’t seem that 
> this consensus exists in Fedora. This leaves us with deprecating 
> ENGINEs to give package maintainers a transition period.
> 
> Should we instead cook up a patch that requires packages that still 
> want to continue use of engines to set an additional preprocessor 
> flag? With a patched openssl/engine.h we could probably make a 
> -DOPENSSL_NO_ENGINE_BUT_ACTUALLY_I_REALLY_STILL_WANT_TO_USE_THIS_DEPRECATED_FUNCTIONALITY 
> work.

I don't think the Change process should be expected to find consensus, 
your incentive is only to find something which passes a FeSCO vote. But 
yeah, doing something like that would definitely get my +1:

#ifndef I_ACKNOWLEDGE_THAT_ENGINES_WILL_BE_GONE_IN_FEDORA_41
#define  OPENSSL_NO_ENGINE
#endif

...and moving engine.h back the main -devel package.

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