Bug#754513: RFP: libressl -- SSL library, forked from OpenSSL

2019-01-20 Thread Harald Dunkel
metoo. I'd love to see libressl available for Debian. Newer versions of opensmtpd (coming from the OpenBSD world as well) dropped support for openssl in favor of libressl, see. https://poolp.org/posts/2018-11-03/opensmtpd-released-and-upcoming-filters-preview/ Regards Harri

Bug#754513: RFP: libressl -- SSL library, forked from OpenSSL

2017-10-17 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 10:26:06PM +0200, Guus Sliepen wrote: On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 10:21:10PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 12:05:30AM +0200, Guus Sliepen wrote: > despite fears of OpenBSD only caring about themselves, I have found that > it is easier to compile

Bug#754513: RFP: libressl -- SSL library, forked from OpenSSL

2017-10-17 Thread Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
On 2017-10-17 11:51:19 [+0100], Colin Watson wrote: > > I didn't even figure out if they want to alter their code or not. > > > https://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openssh-unix-dev/2017-October/036370.html let me check. > I don't see any benefit in conducting a discussion in which we assume

Bug#754513: RFP: libressl -- SSL library, forked from OpenSSL

2017-10-17 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 10:21:10PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 12:05:30AM +0200, Guus Sliepen wrote: > > despite fears of OpenBSD only caring about themselves, I have found that > > it is easier to compile LibreSSL for various platforms (even non-POSIX > > ones) than

Bug#754513: RFP: libressl -- SSL library, forked from OpenSSL

2017-10-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 01:07:43PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > My understanding is that the libressl project does not support a release for > the length of a debian release cycle, and does not commit to API stability > for debian-cycle periods. The LibreSSL website currently says one year. One

Bug#754513: RFP: libressl -- SSL library, forked from OpenSSL

2017-10-17 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 10:00:50PM +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > On 2017-10-16 17:29:09 [+0100], Colin Watson wrote: > > While there does exist a skeletal compatibility layer linked from the > > upstream wiki [1], the OpenSSL developers explicitly don't want to > > maintain this

Bug#754513: RFP: libressl -- SSL library, forked from OpenSSL

2017-10-16 Thread Michael Stone
On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 12:05:30AM +0200, Guus Sliepen wrote: despite fears of OpenBSD only caring about themselves, I have found that it is easier to compile LibreSSL for various platforms (even non-POSIX ones) than OpenSSL. And that APIs might be broken more easily by LibreSSL is ridiculous,

Bug#754513: RFP: libressl -- SSL library, forked from OpenSSL

2017-10-16 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 05:29:09PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > * Package name: libressl [...] > Furthermore, the OpenSSL maintainers in Debian now want to drop their > 1.0 compatibility packages, which the Debian OpenSSH packages rely on. > I can't exactly fault them for wanting to reduce

Bug#754513: RFP: libressl -- SSL library, forked from OpenSSL

2017-10-16 Thread Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
On 2017-10-16 17:29:09 [+0100], Colin Watson wrote: > [I won't quote everything, but people replying to this should probably > read the bug log in the BTS first.] It was a lot to read and "they" stumbled over details. > While there does exist a skeletal compatibility layer linked from the >

Bug#754513: RFP: libressl -- SSL library, forked from OpenSSL

2017-10-16 Thread Michael Stone
On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 05:29:09PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: Out of all of these, I think the option that I think has the fewest downsides overall is to convince people to package LibreSSL, but I'm not myself in a position to contribute to that effort. Does anyone have thoughts or other

Bug#754513: [Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#754513: RFP: libressl -- SSL library, forked from OpenSSL

2017-10-16 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 05:29:09PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > While there does exist a skeletal compatibility layer linked from the > upstream wiki [1], the OpenSSL developers explicitly don't want to > maintain this properly [2], and the OpenSSH developers say that it is > "unversioned,

Bug#754513: RFP: libressl -- SSL library, forked from OpenSSL

2017-10-16 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 12:06:27AM +0200, Toni Mueller wrote: > * Package name: libressl > Version : 2.0.0 > Upstream Author : The OpenBSD project, the OpenSSL project et al. > * URL : http://www.libressl.org/ > * License : BSD, OpenSSL, SSLeay, Public Domain. >