On Tue, 2 Jul 2024 at 14:07, Dmitry Belyavskiy <dbely...@redhat.com> wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
> On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 1:35 PM Iñaki Ucar <iu...@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This recent commit [1] in rawhide moves the engine API to a
>> openssl-devel-engine subpackage following [2] (BTW this change announced
>> that it would be openssl-engine-devel instead, but that's not the point).
>> I'm surprised that FESCo approved this change without any analysis of the
>> impact and the packages that required adaptation and how. Also, change
>> owners are now allowed to commit and just let things break?
>>
>> One major concern is that I see this in a package that does **not** use
>> the engine API:
>>
>> /usr/include/boost/asio/ssl/detail/openssl_types.hpp:26:11: fatal error:
>> openssl/engine.h: No such file or directory
>>    26 | # include <openssl/engine.h>
>>       |           ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>> compilation terminated.
>>
>> What are we supposed to do here? Aren't we allowed to add new packages to
>> Fedora that require Boost ASIO because we would need to add a deprecated
>> package to BR, even if the package itself doesn't use that API?
>>
>
> In the long-term it would be better to provide a patch fixing build of the
> package. Probably adding -DOPENSSL_NO_ENGINE to build flags will work.
>

This should be documented in the change proposal. Does this work for Boost?


> Engines are deprecated. You should not use engines and should migrate to
> providers.
>

I don't use engines. Boost does. I use Boost.

The implemented solution is an attempt to find balance between removing
> engines at all (not possible as of now) and delaying the migration to
> providers.
> I'd recommend consider it as a gentle reminder about future engine
> deprecation
>

Sorry but breaking packages without notice or a proposed solution is not
gentle at all.

-- 
Iñaki Úcar
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