deprecating and dropping xmlsec1-gcrypt and xmlsec1-gnutls

Hi everyone! I'm a maintainer of xmlsec library. The xmlsec library has a plugin system that implements the actual crypto operation. Those implementations/plugins are provided as xmlsec subpackages. As Fedora is moving away from gcrypt, I will deprecate and stop shipping xmlsec1-gcrypt.

soname bump: xmlsec 1.2.39 in rawhide

Hi, I prepared a new build of libxml that brings mainly minor fixes. There is also a new major release/branch 1.3.x that breaks the API compatibility, I keep that out of Fedora at the moment. Tom -- Tomáš Halman thal...@redhat.com T: +420 727 830 769 <+420727830769> *../``\..* Red Hat

Upcomming passwd utility change

Hi guys, As a part of the libuser deprecation effort [1] we are going to replace passwd in Fedora (now coming from separate project) with the one coming from shadow utils. The utilities are pretty the same but there are minor

Re: F39 Change Proposal: LibuserDeprecation (System Wide)

Hi, I went through the thread and there are good points that I was not aware of. But libuser is now pulled into every installation and considering the state of the library (not being developed) I still think we should do something about it. The benefit is small for tools like passwd. The passwd

xmlsec1 broken update in rawhide

Hi Recently I prepared an update of xmlsec1 package to version 1.3 in rawhide but by this step I broke other packages like lasso (I'm sorry for that my mistake). Since I did not manage to fix (Simo also tried with help from the upstream community - thanks for the effort) and it is blocking

Re: Self Introduction: Tomáš

Thank you for your offer. I'm taking over few packages from Jakub Hrozek now and he provides all the information that I need. So far so good :) Tom On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 8:31 PM Matthew Miller wrote: > On Tue, Mar 02, 2021 at 10:40:27AM +0100, Tomas Halman wrote: > > My name is Tom

Self Introduction: Tomáš

Hi, My name is Tomáš or Tom for short. I have worked with linux since Red Hat 3 and Fedora 1 :) Now I would like to join the community and put some effort into Fedora. We might have met before on Devconf or Fosdem, eventually in the ZeroMQ community. -- Tomas Halman