Soname bump for openssl

Tomas Mraz tmraz at redhat.com
Wed Aug 12 14:02:35 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 09:47 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 03:38:27PM +0200, Tomas Mraz wrote:
> >On Wed, 2009-08-12 at 07:36 -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> >> On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 11:45:50AM +0200, Tomas Mraz wrote:
> >> >Hi all,
> >> >
> >> >I'd like to upgrade OpenSSL to 1.0.0-beta3 version just after the F12
> >> >Alpha release. I asked rel-eng to create a custom build target for the
> >> >rebuild so we can avoid shipping the symlink hacks in rawhide.
> >> 
> >> A few questions:
> >> 
> >> Why a beta version?
> >Because the changes on the 1.0.0 branch will not break ABI as they will
> >be bugfix-only and it will allow us to upgrade to 1.0.0 later.
> 
> Thanks for the quick response!  One more question:
> 
> Are we planning for a compat- package for the current OpenSSL version?

I currently do not plan it - we did not do it for recent OpenSSL soname
bumps either, however I would not object if anyone wants to make the
compat package.

-- 
Tomas Mraz
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                                              Turkish proverb




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