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On Mon, 2021-01-04 at 20:59 +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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> > > > > > On Mon, 04 Jan 2021, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> > Starting 2021-02-01, Gentoo will discontinue supporting |
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> > dev-libs/libressl as an alternative to dev-libs/openssl. While it |
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> > will |
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> > [...] |
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> > On 2021-02-01, we will mask the relevant USE flags and packages. |
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> > If |
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> > you |
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> > [...] |
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> > necessary to use the user-maintained LibreSSL overlay [1]. As |
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> > long- |
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> > term |
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> > [...] |
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> > development gained speed and the original reasons for the fork no |
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> > longer |
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> > [...] |
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> > problems were related to packages using old/insecure OpenSSL APIs, |
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> > today |
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> > [...] |
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> > To the best of our knowledge, the only benefit LibreSSL has over |
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> > OpenSSL |
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> This has some strange line breaks now. Please fix. |
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It's just my stupid mail client, please disregard that. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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