From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ricardo Wurmus Subject: Re: octave license is incompatible with openssl Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2016 20:30:35 +0200 Message-ID: <874m6tx0ac.fsf@elephly.net> References: <87h9b0ij9x.fsf@gmail.com> <87wpjvhfpg.fsf@elephly.net> <87eg62d5p4.fsf@gmail.com> <20160808200018.GA20179@jasmine> <871t1yvsn8.fsf@gmail.com> <20160809172728.b6wijrzccd5wdv37@galago.mtmxr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55268) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bXBnn-0005Jx-Oc for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2016 14:31:00 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bXBnm-00034r-SX for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 Aug 2016 14:30:59 -0400 In-reply-to: <20160809172728.b6wijrzccd5wdv37@galago.mtmxr.com> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Guix-devel" To: Mike Miller Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, help-octave@gnu.org Mike Miller writes: > On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 00:00:59 +0800, Alex Vong wrote: >> So, we drop the optional dependency to avoid the problem. > > Precisely what is the optional dependency that is dropped? > > Octave does not directly link with OpenSSL nor use any OpenSSL > functions. The Octave package on Debian builds with all optional > dependencies enabled, and the resulting binary is linked with GnuTLS. The “openssl” package (along with “cyrus-sasl”) was added as a new input to our “octave” package in commit b7b27a8f28746a488eeee489c71053059dc5a8dc, along with the upgrade from 4.0.0 to 4.0.2. I don’t know why this was done. Maybe Kei could shed some light on this. ~~ Ricardo