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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [News review] LibreSSL support discontinued
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2021 11:18:03
Message-Id: 6f310538dac68130bc267723c513b754e26b2d53.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [News review] LibreSSL support discontinued by "Michał Górny"
1 On Sun, 2021-01-03 at 21:47 +0100, Michał Górny wrote:
2 > Hello,
3 >
4 > Please review the news item inlined below. This is based on what
5 > I discussed with blueness (LibreSSL team lead). The news item is kinda
6 > long-ish because I wanted to include the full rationale since I believe
7 > our users will find it desirable to know it.
8 >
9 > If it's ok, I'd like to push it soonish. This will give people around
10 > 4 weeks to prepare and/or migrate their systems manually before being
11 > hit by the masks. Afterwards, we'll mask libressl with a prolonged
12 > removal date. I'm thinking of 3 months since I suspect that our
13 > packages will start strongly requiring OpenSSL by then.
14 >
15 > I'm mentioning the LibreSSL overlay since one of our users is
16 > interested in maintaining it. It will probably be the best alternative
17 > for users who want to continue fighting the lost cause without causing
18 > major problems for Gentoo mainline.
19
20 Thank you all for feedback. I've just pushed the last version.
21
22 --
23 Best regards,
24 Michał Górny

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