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From: hasufell <hasufell@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] LibreSSL import plan
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2015 08:13:21
Message-Id: 560B9995.3080503@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] LibreSSL import plan by hasufell
1 On 09/30/2015 10:11 AM, hasufell wrote:
2 > On 09/30/2015 08:35 AM, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote:
3 >> On 9/29/15 3:32 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
4 >>> The thing is that I think the libressl authors are shooting themselves
5 >>> in the feet. When upstreams do this sort of thing they think they're
6 >>> making the upgrade path easier by not changing their symbol names. In
7 >>> reality, they're making the upgrade path harder by preventing
8 >>> side-by-side adoption of the new solution.
9 >>
10 >> Yeah, it's not that obvious how to handle it best.
11 >>
12 >> Curious - how would the alternative look like? My reasoning is that if
13 >> upstream changes symbols, that makes it easy for a distro to install it
14 >> side-by-side. However, for anything to use such modified lib, they'd
15 >> need to change all callers to use the alternative function names,
16 >> wouldn't they?
17 >>
18 >
19 > Such questions are better off at the openbsd-tech mailing list.
20
21 correcting: the libressl mailing list, also see
22 http://www.libressl.org/mail.html