On 2019-04-14 21:08:46 [+0100], Adam D. Barratt wrote:
> On Sun, 2018-11-25 at 13:49 +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> > With the intention of pushing OpenSSL 1.1.0j into Stretch here is the
> > proposed change for python-cryptography.
> > The package python-cryptography fails to build due to an API change
> > of BIO_callback_ctrl() in OpenSSL. While this is a no-no in a stable
> > release, it has been explained [0] that the function / callback was
> > always used with a different prototype. I fixed this by removing the
> > function / prototype from the python wrapper while upstream removed
> > the almost all BIO related wrappers [1].
> > I did a rebuild of python-cryptography's rdeps in Stretch against
> > OpenSSL 1.1.0i and the proposed package with no fallout [2].
> 
> Just to be 100% sure on the scope here, those rebuilds were just for
> confirmation? i.e. they are not required if we go ahead.

Excatly. I just wanted to makes sure that this change (this update of
python-cryptography) did not break any of its users / reverse
dependecies.

> Regards,
> 
> Adam

Sebastian

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