clone 745955 -1 retitle -1 "Use GnuTLS crypto API instead of gcrypt" thanks
Am 17.05.2014 08:20, schrieb Andreas Metzler: > On 2014-05-17 Michael Biebl <[email protected]> wrote: >> Am 26.04.2014 20:01, schrieb Andreas Metzler: >>> Package: network-manager >>> Version: 0.9.8.8-7 > [...] >>> Usertags: gnutls3 > >>> network-manager uses gcrypt directly (not only as an indirect dependency >>> via gnutls) but does not build-depend on it. > >> Hi Andreas, >> could you tell me what I'm supposed to fix here and how this relates to >> gnutls3? > > Hello Michael, > > I am sorry that report was too terse, let me give some background: > > We want to transition to GnuTLS v3 ("gnutls28"). As part of this I have > tried building all reverse (build-)dependencies of GnuTLSv2 > ("gnutls26") against gnutls28 (I locally added a libgnutls-dev > packages which depends on libgnutls28-dev.) and submitted bugreports > against all failing ones. > > network-manager uses both gnutls and gcrypt. However it does not > build-depend on libgcrypt11-dev or libgcrypt20-dev but instead relies > on libgnutls-dev depending on libgcrypt11-dev. Since gnutls28 uses > nettle instead of gcrypt as crypto backend this dependency is gone and > network-manager FTBFS. > > --- > > How to fix this bug: > The quickest way would be to simply add a b-d on libgcrypt11-dev. > However what I would like to see is upgrading the b-d from > libgnutls-dev to "libgnutls28-dev, libgcrypt20-dev | libgcrypt11-dev". > > Obviously it is less than optimal that network-manager then depends on > two crypto libraries (indirectly on nettle via gnutls, and gcrypt). > This could be fixed by using the GnuTLS crypto API instead of > gcrypt. It should not be very difficult for a programmer, but I cannot > provide a patch since I am not a programmer. > Ok, let's split this issue then. I'll add a libgcrypt11-dev dependency with the next upload, closing #745955. Porting to GnuTLS only API is more involved and I'll track this in a cloned bug report. Michael -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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