#9975: Update GnuTLS and clean up the package
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Reporter: drkirkby | Owner: tbd
Type: defect | Status: needs_review
Priority: major | Milestone: sage-4.7
Component: packages | Keywords:
Work_issues: | Upstream: N/A
Reviewer: | Author: Mariah Lenox
Merged: | Dependencies:
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Changes (by newvalueoldvalue):
* status: new => needs_review
* author: => Mariah Lenox
Old description:
> The current version of GnuTLS in Sage has multiple issues, not all of
> which will probably be solved by this ticket, but at least of subset of
> them will be.
> * The current version in Sage is very old.
> * There are security issues with the current version - see #7542
> * There's no {{{spkg-check}}} file - see #9308
> * It fails to build on AIX - see #9974
> * It fails to build on HP-UX - see #7511
> * {{{make}}} is used instead of {{{$MAKE}}}
> * {{{-m64}}} is hard-coded as the compiler flag needed for 64-bit builds
> * {{{SPKG.txt}}} lacks the {{{Special Update/Build Instructions}}}
> section.
> * There's an incomplete list of dependencies in {{{SKG.txt}}}, with a
> remark to {{{FIXME}}}
New description:
The current version of GnuTLS in Sage has multiple issues, not all of
which will probably be solved by this ticket, but at least of subset of
them will be.
* The current version in Sage is very old.
* There are security issues with the current version - see #7542
* There's no {{{spkg-check}}} file - see #9308
* It fails to build on AIX - see #9974
* It fails to build on HP-UX - see #7511
* {{{make}}} is used instead of {{{$MAKE}}}
* {{{-m64}}} is hard-coded as the compiler flag needed for 64-bit builds
* {{{SPKG.txt}}} lacks the {{{Special Update/Build Instructions}}}
section.
* There's an incomplete list of dependencies in {{{SKG.txt}}}, with a
remark to {{{FIXME}}}
An upgrade and attempt to clean up this package is
[http://boxen.math.washington.edu/home/mariah/spkg/gnutls-2.12.3.spkg]
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