Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Niko Tyni <nt...@debian.org> * Package name : perl-openssl-defaults Version : 1 Upstream Author : Niko Tyni <nt...@debian.org> * URL : https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-perl/packages/perl-openssl-defaults.git * License : GPL-1+ or Artistic Programming Lang: Perl Description : Version compatibility baseline for Perl OpenSSL packages
A subset of Perl XS module packages expose the OpenSSL binary interface to Perl code. This can lead to incompatibilities if these packages are linked against different versions of OpenSSL. . This package provides a virtual package "perl-openssl-abi-x" that corresponds to the libssl-dev package SONAME it was built against. The packages that need to stay compatible with each other can depend on this. . Tools are also provided for generating this dependency with minimum hassle. See the instructions in README.Debian. This was prompted by Perl modules segfaulting in a partial OpenSSL 1.0 -> 1.1 transition. See #848113 for the background. The package will be maintained in the Debian Perl Group (pkg-perl).