On Wednesday 2015-08-12 20:29, Mark Kettenis wrote: > >One possible reason to deviate from using the LibreSSL release version >would be if we want to continue to be a drop-in replacement for >OpenSSL. In that case continuing to adevrtise a reasonable OpenSSL >version number for openssl.pc, libcrypto.pc and libssl.pc might make >sense. Probably best to involve ports people in that decision though.
The openssl API did not change very often. Many build recipes request "pkgconfig(libcrypto) >= 0.9.7" or >= 1.0.0 for example, which the libressl files satisfy thanks to their 2.x numbering (well, 35:0:0 also satisfies it, numerically).
