On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 3:21 PM, Vít Ondruch <vondr...@redhat.com> wrote:
> Just FTR, I opened Ruby upstream ticket asking about the OpenSSL 1.1.0
> support:
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> https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/12830
>
> Not sure if you'll have also some Fedora specific tracker ....
Would be nice to get tracking bug created on RHBZ, so we can track all
the packages.
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> Vít
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> Dne 10.10.2016 v 16:29 Tomas Mraz napsal(a):
>> On So, 2016-10-08 at 13:37 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>>> Tomas Mraz wrote:
>>>> At worst if the patching of a package is highly non-trivial and the
>>>> upstream is not responsive we might have to drop the package from
>>>> Fedora.
>>>>
>>>> We do not want to keep 1.0.2 devel around as that could make it to
>>>> look
>>>> like the 1.0.2 is still fully "supported" in Fedora and there would
>>>> be
>>>> no incentive to switch to 1.1.0. Also to get any new features from
>>>> upstream OpenSSL we have to move to newer versions as they are
>>>> released
>>>> as the old versions get only bug fixes.
>>> IMHO, this is not acceptable. If the API of a library changes enough
>>> to
>>> warrant a compat package, you have to provide the -devel for the
>>> compat
>>> package as well. Dropping all the packages that don't build against
>>> the new
>>> incompatible version from Fedora is not a reasonable plan.
>> We will work on porting the dependent packages to the new API. If by
>> some reasonable deadline there are still some packages that are not
>> dead by other reasons and we are unable to port them we can add -devel
>> to the compat package. Note though that small changes in such packages
>> will be needed anyway as the include files of the compat package will
>> have to be in non-default include directory. (If the package doesn't
>> use pkgconfig to find the needed CFLAGS automatically.)
>>
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