Marek Michalkiewicz writes:
 > Package: libssl0.9.6
 > Version: 0.9.6b-1
 > Severity: wishlist
 > Tags: sid
 > 
 > Not sure how hard would be to do this, but instead of so many dual
 > SSL/non-SSL versions of various packages, it might be a good idea
 > to have a libssl-dummy package (in main) that contains no encryption
 > code, and can be installed instead of libssl0.9.6 if the latter is
 > illegal somewhere.  Then only build single packages that depend on
 > libssl or libssl-dummy, and enable SSL at run time if the real libssl
 > is installed.  Unless, of course, Debian decides to follow many other
 > distributions, and simply include all crypto in main...

I don't think that this is possible. Often you have to change the
programming logic to enable ssl in an application. So a fallback to
just doing nothing would not work. Especially applications which can
to both with and without ssl would have a problem. For programs which
simply should put a wrapper around the plaintext protocoll you can
easily use stunnel.

Christoph
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