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Bug#965041: [Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#965041: libssl3: Please stop building legacy provider

From Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.dist
Subject Bug#965041: [Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#965041: libssl3: Please stop building legacy provider
Date 2020-07-14 22:50 +0200
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On Tue, Jul 14, 2020 at 06:22:50PM +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> Package: libssl3
> Version: 3.0.0~~alpha4-1
> Severity: important
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> Please stop building legacy provider. None of the algorithms it
> provides are useful, or needed at all.
> 
> Please do not not build it nor ship it. Those who need to access that,
> can self build that code.
> 
> Alternatively you may choose to provide legacy provider in a separate
> binary package, but imho it must not enter testing or stable releases.

Applications that want to use the legacy provider will need to
get changed to load them. By default the algorithms will not be
available.

I'm not sure that not shipping the file improves anything.


Kurt

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Bug#965041: libssl3: Please stop building legacy provider Dimitri John Ledkov <xnox@ubuntu.com> - 2020-07-14 22:10 +0200
  Bug#965041: [Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#965041: libssl3: Please stop building legacy provider Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be> - 2020-07-14 22:50 +0200
    Bug#965041: [Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#965041: libssl3: Please stop building legacy provider Dimitri John Ledkov <xnox@ubuntu.com> - 2020-07-16 05:10 +0200
      Bug#965041: [Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#965041: libssl3: Please stop building legacy provider Kurt Roeckx <kurt@roeckx.be> - 2020-07-16 09:00 +0200
  Bug#965041: [Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#965041: libssl3: Please stop building legacy provider Dimitri John Ledkov <xnox@ubuntu.com> - 2020-07-16 05:10 +0200

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