openssl097a package retirement

[Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray]

[Continuing from the fedora-maintainers list.]

On 22/08/2007, Tomas Mraz <tmraz at redhat.com> wrote:
> If there will not be any serious objections I'll retire openssl097a
> package in rawhide.
>
> It doesn't make much sense to maintain this old version of openssl in
> Fedora.

I am packaging httrack, which has the following snippet:

      /* We are compatible with 0.9.6/7/8 and potentially above */
      handle = dlopen("libssl.so.0.9.8", RTLD_LAZY);
      if (handle == NULL) {
        handle = dlopen("libssl.so.0.9.7", RTLD_LAZY);
      }
      if (handle == NULL) {
        handle = dlopen("libssl.so.0.9.6", RTLD_LAZY);
      }
      if (handle == NULL) {
        /* Try harder */
        handle = dlopen("libssl.so", RTLD_LAZY);
      }
      if (handle == NULL) {
        /* Try harder */
        handle = dlopen("libssl.so.0", RTLD_LAZY);

Are libssl.so.0.9.8 and libssl.so.9.8b compatible? Can I patch the
source to use libssl.so.9.8b?

Thanks,
Debarshi
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