Should we settle on one SSL implementation?

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 02:13:18PM +0000, seth vidal wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 09:11 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> > John Dennis wrote:
> > 
> > > So why did Peter Vrabec open bugs against a slew of packages a few hours
> > > ago all with the summary:
> > > 
> > > "Port XXX to use NSS library for cryptography"
> > > 
> > > I haven't seen a consensus this how package maintainers should be
> > > spending their time.
> > 
> > I'm assuming those bugs are mostly for tracking purposes.
> > 
> 
> and a lot of them are wrong.

Yep, this is just creating yet bug triage work for maintainers. When entering
tickets one could at least check the app in question to see if it actually
uses the crypto libraries we're being told to remove. Not useful.

Dan
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