On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 05:29:09PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > While there does exist a skeletal compatibility layer linked from the > upstream wiki [1], the OpenSSL developers explicitly don't want to > maintain this properly [2], and the OpenSSH developers say that it is > "unversioned, incomplete, barely documented, and seems to be > unmaintained" [3]. Kurt Roeckx proposed a patch to add a compatibility > shim [4], and a number of other projects have done something similar, > but the OpenSSH developers have explicitly said that they do not want to > take that approach [5].
My understanding is they would only be happy if we turn that file into a library they can link to. It would require that all the functions get renamed, which should be easy to do in a header file. > It's not currently clear to me whether anyone has explicitly talked with > the OpenSSL developers about this problem from the point of view of the > OpenSSH developers, rather than just as users trying to get OpenSSH to > compile against the new version. The question we got asked is to add that compatibility in the openssl 1.0 package, which really doesn't solve anything. Kurt