On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 09:02:39AM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 03:54:04PM -0700, Brian Murray wrote:
> > Package: slrn
> > Version: 1.0.3+dfsg-4
> > Severity: important
> > User: ubuntu-de...@lists.ubuntu.com
> > Usertags: origin-ubuntu groovy
> >
> > Dear Maintainer,
> >
> > It is not possible to connect to a secure news server. The following
> > command fails:
> >
> > NNTPSERVER=snews://secure-us.news.easynews.com:8000 slrn --create
> > ...
> > Connecting to host secure-us.news.easynews.com ...
> > Failed to initialize server
> > Run-Time Error
> > Reason:
> > slrn fatal error:
> > Failed to initialize server.
> >
> > The servers for easynews listen on mutliple ports
> > (https://help.easynews.com/kb/article/11-nntp-server-addresses/) but it
> > is not possible to connect to any of the SSL setups. However, using
> > NNTP=news.easynews.com:8000 works without error.
>
> Can you try a local build with OpenSSL instead of GNUTLS? (by removing
> the --with-gnutls in debian/rules)
>
> As soon as OpenSSL 3.0 is released and uploaded to unstable (which has a
> GPL-compatible license) I'm planning to switch slrn to OpenSSL.
Summarising further investigation (which happens off bug): Switching to OpenSSL
fixes this, which is planned once OpenSSL 3.0 hits unstable.
Cheers,
Moritz
