> On Sep 26, 2016, at 2:20 PM, Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On Sep 26, 2016, at 10:53, Max Horn <m...@quendi.de> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>>> On 26 Sep 2016, at 13:44, Daniel Johnson <daniel.johnso...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> There is a new OpenSSL libversion out, 1.1.0. I’ve made a new package but 
>>> want to check with everyone else where I should put it, base or crypto. It 
>>> does have a new BuildDepends, text-template-pm, so that would have to move 
>>> to base too. Also note that not everything will be able to use it right 
>>> away. There have been a lot of changes to the API (removed functions, 
>>> structs made opaque, new threading model) so other packages usually need 
>>> changes to work with it. Opinions?
>> 
>> Why would we put this into base? The (naive) logical approach would be to 
>> put it into crypto, and thus also leave text-template-pm out of base.
>> 
>> I don't say there are no good reasons for putting it into base/, but if 
>> there are, they should be named explicitly.
>> 
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Max
>> 
> 
> Checking the commits history, it looks like openssl100 is in base because we 
> _thought_ that cvs needed it, but it actually didn’t.  
> 
> http://fink.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/fink/dists/10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/base/cvs.info?view=log
> 
> With that not actually the case, I don’t see a compelling reason to put the 
> newer libversion there.
> -- 
> Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
> Fink User Liaison
> 

Ah! Yeah, I have a vague recollection that it was about cvs. Good, it’ll go in 
crypto then.

Daniel


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