[email protected] (Niels Möller) writes:

> Simon Josefsson <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> The serpent code is replaced, any other issues that we are waiting for?
>
>  * Fix the libdir defaults for linux x86_64 (I think the following
>    should work in most cases for for both debian and fhs conventions:
>    When building for $ABI (32 or 64), check if /usr/lib$ABI exists. If
>    so, install there, otherwise in $prefix/lib. Possibly bail out with
>    an error if neither /usr/lib32 nor /usr/lib64 exists).

I don't understand why this is a Nettle problem, since I don't recall
having to do anything like that for any of the libraries I maintain.
Could it be because I use automake and libtool?  If automake would solve
this issue, how about using it in Nettle?

>  * Decide which flavor of LGPL licensing should be used. Options:
>    LGPLv2+, LGPLv3+ or dual license LGPLv3+ and GPLv2+.

Is there a reason to change from the current LGPLv2+ before the next
release?

>  * Update NEWS and documentation (regarding serpent and licensing).

I can help with that, if you want.  I did a diff between 2.1 and the
current code, and it is a fairly small set of changes.

> Comments appreciated. Anything else?

Not that I can think of.

Using UTF-8 encoding for the files instead of ISO-8859-1 could be one.

> In the mean time, I'm also hacking further on the serpent code. The
> double-block trick in C gave a modest improvement. I think it should
> work great with sse2 assembly to do four blocks at a time. Primarily for
> x86_64, but maybe also for plain x86 (but then maybe one can's use sse2
> unconditionally). But that doesn't have to be completed before release.

Right.

/Simon
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