Re: openssl097a package retirement

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On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 16:14 +0530, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote:
> [Continuing from the fedora-maintainers list.]
> 
> On 22/08/2007, Tomas Mraz <tmraz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > If there will not be any serious objections I'll retire openssl097a
> > package in rawhide.
> >
> > It doesn't make much sense to maintain this old version of openssl in
> > Fedora.
> 
> I am packaging httrack, which has the following snippet:
> 
>       /* We are compatible with 0.9.6/7/8 and potentially above */
>       handle = dlopen("libssl.so.0.9.8", RTLD_LAZY);
>       if (handle == NULL) {
>         handle = dlopen("libssl.so.0.9.7", RTLD_LAZY);
>       }
>       if (handle == NULL) {
>         handle = dlopen("libssl.so.0.9.6", RTLD_LAZY);
>       }
>       if (handle == NULL) {
>         /* Try harder */
>         handle = dlopen("libssl.so", RTLD_LAZY);
>       }
>       if (handle == NULL) {
>         /* Try harder */
>         handle = dlopen("libssl.so.0", RTLD_LAZY);
> 
> Are libssl.so.0.9.8 and libssl.so.9.8b compatible? Can I patch the
> source to use libssl.so.9.8b?

Is there any reason not to patch the source to simply link against
libssl instead ?



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