Re: Statement(s) on libssl situation desired

2005-10-17 Thread Florian Weimer
* Nathanael Nerode: Note the following apparent facts: * libssl0.9.7 and libssl0.9.8, if linked in the same binary, will cause unpredictable failure due to symbol conflicts. * This could be fixed if libssl0.9.8 had versioned symbols, which it doesn't yet. Are you sure? I think it's not

Re: [Pkg-openssl-devel] Statement(s) on libssl situation desired

2005-10-15 Thread Andreas Barth
* Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [051015 01:39]: On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 12:52:08AM +0200, Christoph Martin wrote: Finally, are there any plans to alleviate testing migration issues for packages held up by this, and if so, how? The way to alleviate testing migration issues is by

Re: [Pkg-openssl-devel] Statement(s) on libssl situation desired

2005-10-15 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 04:38:53PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 12:52:08AM +0200, Christoph Martin wrote: Finally, are there any plans to alleviate testing migration issues for packages held up by this, and if so, how? The way to alleviate testing migration

Re: [Pkg-openssl-devel] Statement(s) on libssl situation desired

2005-10-15 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 01:11:17PM +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote: What I'm wondering about was the need for a Conflict between libssl0.9.7 and libssl0.9.8. I think we should do it, but it's going to make migration to testing alot harder, but hopefully the last time. Having talked to with the

Re: Re: [Pkg-openssl-devel] Statement(s) on libssl situation desired

2005-10-15 Thread Nathanael Nerode
Packages built against the unversioned libssl0.9.8 will, when run on a system with versioned libssl0.9.8, either pick up the symbols from libssl0.9.7 (wrong) or not find their symbols (segfault). Accordingly, all packages linked against the current libssl0.9.8 are in trouble and will

Re: Re: [Pkg-openssl-devel] Statement(s) on libssl situation desired

2005-10-15 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 03:39:08PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote: Packages built against the unversioned libssl0.9.8 will, when run on a system with versioned libssl0.9.8, either pick up the symbols from libssl0.9.7 (wrong) or not find their symbols (segfault). Accordingly, all

Re: Re: [Pkg-openssl-devel] Statement(s) on libssl situation desired

2005-10-15 Thread Nathanael Nerode
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please note that libssl0.9.7 and libssl0.9.8 have a different SONAME. There can only be a problem when a program (indirectly) links to both of them. In that case, there isn't even an option not to install both of them. If a program is linked to both of them, and

Statement(s) on libssl situation desired

2005-10-14 Thread Nathanael Nerode
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kurt Roeckx wrote: snip I intend to drop the libssl0.9.7-dev package in the next upload, which I hope to do soon. I don't think it's a good idea to keep that -dev package around. Unless the release team ask me to keep it around, I'll remove it. I would be

Re: [Pkg-openssl-devel] Statement(s) on libssl situation desired

2005-10-14 Thread Christoph Martin
Hi Nathanael, Nathanael Nerode schrieb: Note the following apparent facts: * libssl0.9.7 and libssl0.9.8, if linked in the same binary, will cause unpredictable failure due to symbol conflicts. * This could be fixed if libssl0.9.8 had versioned symbols, which it doesn't yet. * I see from

Re: [Pkg-openssl-devel] Statement(s) on libssl situation desired

2005-10-14 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 12:52:08AM +0200, Christoph Martin wrote: Finally, are there any plans to alleviate testing migration issues for packages held up by this, and if so, how? The way to alleviate testing migration issues is by getting openssl097 and openssl updates into testing ASAP.