On 2017-10-13 08:49:21 [+0100], Colin Tuckley wrote: > > this is a remainder about the openssl transition [0]. We really want to > > remove libssl1.0-dev from unstable for Buster. I will raise the severity > > of this bug to serious in a month. Please react before that happens. > > I've talked to upstream about this. Apparently it will be a *lot* of > work due to the API changes without a soname bump. As a result upstream > are giving the required changes a very low priority.
Whose soname name bump? cqrlog's or openssl's? The new openssl library arrived last year in unstable. Was there any progress on that topic? Is there a reference to upstream's bugzilla / mainling list about this? > Please do *not* increase the priority of this bug. > > The correct thing to do here is to make the old and new versions of > openssl coexist. This was done for Stretch. For Buster we want the old library out. Sebastian