On Tuesday, November 26, 2019 9:19:21 PM CET Jan Nordholz wrote: > is there a reason that Debian's distribution package is *not* using the > build flag "-openssl-linked" to create a proper DT_NEEDED dependency at > compile-time? (Couldn't find anything in the archived bugreports, sorry if > this is reopening a can of worms.)
Yes. the gpl versions are incompatible with openssl, so that would require all users of the non-ssl using parts of qtnetwork to also have openssl exceptions. This way, only the applications actually requiring it requires the exception. /Sune -- I didn’t stop pretending when I became an adult, it’s just that when I was a kid I was pretending that I fit into the rules and structures of this world. And now that I’m an adult, I pretend that those rules and structures exist. - zefrank