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Re: Remove PINE from distro


On Jun 20 22:35, Yaakov S wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 13:39 +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > pine is the only package still using the really crufty openssl-0.9.7.
> > Since Igor Peshansky is AWOL for quite some time now, I'd like to remove
> > the pine and openssl097 packages from the distro.  ASAP.  Does anybody
> > have a problem with that?  If so, would you take over maintainership
> > for pine?
> 
> We have a problem: several libsasl2 modules are also linked against
> 0.9.7, and as several packages use libsasl2, we need this ITA'd ASAP.
> We had better check the rest of the distro to make sure that current
> openssl deps are actually 0.9.8.
> 
> To avoid these problems in the future (and openssl 1.0.0 is coming soon,
> I presume, so this will be an issue fairly soon), may I suggest the
> current DLLs from openssl be packaged separately as libssl0.9.8?

That was the plan anyway as soon as I get around to move to openssl-1.0.0
myself.

I assume you mean "asap"?  Including to change the package dependencies
throughout?


Corinna

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