openssl097a package retirement

Tomas Mraz tmraz at redhat.com
Mon Nov 12 20:46:30 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-11-12 at 23:04 +0530, Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray wrote:
> > 'Not necessarily'. It's why the soname changes.
> 
> That is why I asked. :-)
> 
> The comments in the HTTrack code say that it should be compatible with
> versions later than libssl.so.0.9.8. I have asked HTTrack upstream,
> and wanted to know if the openssl packager knew something about what
> might have changed or potential trouble spots. I am not familiar with
> the openssl code myself.

I think that you can safely patch it. But I'm curious why HTTrack
dlopens it and not directly links to it.
-- 
Tomas Mraz
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