On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 03:54:04PM -0700, Brian Murray wrote:
> Package: slrn
> Version: 1.0.3+dfsg-4
> Severity: important
> User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com
> Usertags: origin-ubuntu groovy
>
> Dear Maintainer,
>
> It is not possible to connect to a secure news server. The following
> command fails:
>
> NNTPSERVER=snews://secure-us.news.easynews.com:8000 slrn --create
> ...
> Connecting to host secure-us.news.easynews.com ...
> Failed to initialize server
> Run-Time Error
> Reason:
> slrn fatal error:
> Failed to initialize server.
>
> The servers for easynews listen on mutliple ports
> (https://help.easynews.com/kb/article/11-nntp-server-addresses/) but it
> is not possible to connect to any of the SSL setups. However, using
> NNTP=news.easynews.com:8000 works without error.
Can you try a local build with OpenSSL instead of GNUTLS? (by removing
the --with-gnutls in debian/rules)
As soon as OpenSSL 3.0 is released and uploaded to unstable (which has a
GPL-compatible license) I'm planning to switch slrn to OpenSSL.
Cheers,
Moritz
