On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:54:17 +0200 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 09:39 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > > David A. Wheeler wrote: > > > On Mon, 2008-08-25 at 20:04 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote: > > >>> Hi All, > > >>> > > >>> The story begins here: > > >>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446860 > > > ... > > >>> I would like to suggest the removal of libgnutls-openssl from > > >>> Fedora,... > > > > > > That will probably create many legal problems. > > > > Well only for 2 packages as so far only 2 packages are using > > ibgnutls-openssl > > > > > If there's a way to keep this package, we should. > > > > Agreed another solution would be better one where the gnutls > > openssl compat headers uses #defines to change the function names > > to for example gnutls_ prefixed symbols. > > I have reported the problem to the upstream devel mailing list and > they would accept the patch into upstream if someone writes it but > they are also considering dropping libgnutls-openssl altogether. > > Unfortunately I won't have time to write the patch till middle of > September. > > So for now I'd suggest to build the affected packages without > gnutls-openssl dependency. > I can cheerfully bump and rebuild one of the affected packages (mcabber) against OpenSSL proper if that'll help matters. (I'd volunteer to help with a patch but I'm not certain my C-fu would be up to the task :-)) Michael. (mcabber package maintainer) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
