On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 11:02 PM Miro Hrončok <mhron...@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 22. 06. 22 21:05, Vipul Siddharth wrote:
> > We are going to deprecate openssl1.1 package, stop shipping the
> > corresponding devel package, and stop respecting crypto policies in
> > openssl1.1 package itself.
>
> +1 to deprecating it
>

Great!

-1 to stop shipping the devel package, this would mean we cannot build at
> least:
>
> - Python 2.7
>    despite our long term efforts, many things still need that, e.g. gimp,
> firefox (some builds do, then some don't), thunderbird etc., see
> https://fedora.portingdb.xyz/
>
> Or Python 3.6 (shipped for developers targeting RHEL 7/8).
>
> As long as OpenSSL 1.1 gets security fixes in RHEL 8, could we please
> leave the
> devel package?
>

I'm not sure that if we don't remove the devel package, we will provide
strong enough motivation to get rid of the deprecating packages.

-- 
Dmitry Belyavskiy
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