On 2011-10-28 Julien Cristau <[email protected]> wrote: [...] > libgnutls-openssl27 is already in sid, it's not going away afaict. If > you mean "stop building it from gnutls26, build it from gnutls28 > instead" then that doesn't require NEW processing.
live and learn. I thought adding something always required NEW. > I'm also not sure what the intention is with libgnutls-dev. Is the plan > to have it built from gnutls28 eventually, or keep it in gnutls26? The main point is to drop gnutls26 eventually. Building libgnutls-dev from gnutls28 again will probably be a step on that road. > What's the "handholding" you refer to above? * Check license compatibilty. * There is API breakage.[1] Some functions have been dropped, multithreaded programs usually need a change. * Some packages wich use both gcrypt and gnutls directly might need not only an added build-dependency on gcrypt but also updated autoconf code to add gcrypt, since it is no longer automatically pulled in by gnutls. cu andreas [1] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnutls-devel/2011-08/msg00033.html -- `What a good friend you are to him, Dr. Maturin. His other friends are so grateful to you.' `I sew his ears on from time to time, sure' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
