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On 09/30/2015 10:11 AM, hasufell wrote: |
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> On 09/30/2015 08:35 AM, Paweł Hajdan, Jr. wrote: |
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>> On 9/29/15 3:32 PM, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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>>> The thing is that I think the libressl authors are shooting themselves |
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>>> in the feet. When upstreams do this sort of thing they think they're |
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>>> making the upgrade path easier by not changing their symbol names. In |
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>>> reality, they're making the upgrade path harder by preventing |
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>>> side-by-side adoption of the new solution. |
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>> Yeah, it's not that obvious how to handle it best. |
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>> Curious - how would the alternative look like? My reasoning is that if |
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>> upstream changes symbols, that makes it easy for a distro to install it |
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>> side-by-side. However, for anything to use such modified lib, they'd |
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>> need to change all callers to use the alternative function names, |
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>> wouldn't they? |
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> Such questions are better off at the openbsd-tech mailing list. |
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correcting: the libressl mailing list, also see |
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http://www.libressl.org/mail.html |