On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 11:47:57AM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: > * gnutls-bin - This is now built by gnutls28 in Debian, which we > don't have in Ubuntu yet. > > Suggested plan of action: Verify that we can build all of main > against gnutls28 with reasonable porting effort, sync gnutls28 into > main, do the transition, drop gnutls26. Debian is undergoing this > transition now, I think, so we can cooperate with them and send > patches. If porting to 28 involves too big hurdles, the fallback is > to build gnutls-bin from gnutls26 again (i. e. partial revert).
I started this: http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/transitions/gnutls28.html ... and uploaded ntfs-3g and mutt for starters. However, upon thinking to myself that this was an annoying delta per package and why couldn't libgnutls-dev just be switched to gnutls28, I went and actually did some research and found this: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/10/msg00332.html """ * The new version uses LGPLv3+/GPLv3+ instead of v2+, and can therefore not be used in GPLv2 projects anymore. (Hello, cups!) """ So this is awkward: libcupsys2 is in desktop, and this implies that we'll find it hard to avoid duplication to the tune of a bit under half a megabyte. My feeling is that for precise this means that we'll be better off sticking with gnutls26. Unfortunately I've already synced gnutls28, but I could always hold my nose and upload gnutls26 to build a gnutls-bin binary package with a +really version to back this out. Any other thoughts? -- Colin Watson [[email protected]] -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel
