[HEADSUP] Dropping libopenssl098 from distro

[Peter A. Castro]

On Mon, 26 Jan 2015, Corinna Vinschen wrote:

> Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 21:43:44 +0100
> From: Corinna Vinschen
> Subject: Re: [HEADSUP] Dropping libopenssl098 from distro
> 
>
> Just a quick update on the libopenssl098 frontier:
>
>
> On Jan 14 15:13, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> it's really *really* overdue to remove the OpenSSL 0.98 DLLs from
>> the 32 bit distro.  Fortunately they were never in the 64 bit distro.
>>
>> The problem is that we still have packages requiring libopenssl098.
>> These need rebuilding or removing.
>>
>> The following packages need simple rebuilding:
>>
>>   suite3270	Peter A. Castro
>
> Peter, any progress?

Still working on it.  I'm hitting some porting issues while upgrading the 
package suite.

>> The following packages have dependecies of their own, so they can't
>> go away until the dependent packages have been rebuilt:
>>
>>   libarchive2	Yaakov Selkowitz
>>
>>     required by:
>>
>> 	gvfs		Yaakov Selkowitz
>> 	libgxps2	Yaakov Selkowitz
>>
>> 	gvfs and libgxps2 should be rebuilt to link against libarchive13.
>
> This needs the GNOME 3.14 update which will take some time.
>
>>   libpq		Marco Atzeri
>>
>>     required by:
>>
>> 	clisp		Ken Brown
>> 	xemacs		Dr. Volker Zell
>
> These are "in the works".
>
>> 	libsasl2	David Rothenberger
>
> 	  required by:
>
> 	    libopenldap2_3_0
>
> Both of these packages can be removed automatically when clisp and xemacs
> are rebuilt.
>
> So the situation is grave, but not hopeless.
>
> Corinna

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