On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 10:09:41 +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote: > On 2011-10-28 Julien Cristau <[email protected]> wrote: > [...] > > 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. > Hrm. This sounds like a major pain...
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