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From: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
To: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
Cc: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>,
	"Leo Famulari" <leo@famulari.name>,
	guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: LibreSSL?
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2022 13:44:36 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YrBPlOpHSOldq+2N@3900XT> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Yq+ggiZfpw/JBKPu@jurong>

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On Mon, Jun 20, 2022 at 12:17:38AM +0200, Andreas Enge wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Am Fri, Apr 01, 2022 at 10:41:11AM +0200 schrieb Ludovic Courtès:
> > At first sight, it looks like an easy-to-maintain package: no
> > dependencies, few users, stable API.
> > 
> > I tried to update it to 3.5.1 and was proved wrong though: there’s one
> > test failure in ‘tests/asn1object’ and the Internet doesn’t seem to know
> > how to address the problem.  So it would need a bit more work.
> > 
> > I’d lean towards keeping it and doing that extra work, collectively, but
> > I understand this very discussion shows that it’s debatable.
> 
> at some point in time, my understanding was that we would switch everything
> to libressl and drop openssl. I have not followed, but from
>    https://lwn.net/Articles/841664/
> it looks as if the problems with openssl are more or less solved, at least
> they are not worse than in libressl.
> 
> So an option would be to try to switch the existing dependencies to openssl
> and decide from there.
> 
> What do you think?

I thought I had updated it last month but it turns out I never actually
did. My daughter and I looked at fixing acme-client before the staging
merge before we saw it was abandoned, I guess that's when I thought I
updated libressl. I'd be more interested in trying to use openssl-3 than
trying to pull along libressl.

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      reply	other threads:[~2022-06-20 10:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-29 16:39 LibreSSL? Leo Famulari
2022-04-01  8:41 ` LibreSSL? Ludovic Courtès
2022-06-19 22:17   ` LibreSSL? Andreas Enge
2022-06-20 10:44     ` Efraim Flashner [this message]

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