move to openssl-1.0 and skype

Michel Alexandre Salim michael.silvanus at gmail.com
Sun Aug 30 06:57:41 UTC 2009


On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Michal Jaegermann<michal at harddata.com> wrote:
> It appears that move to openssl-1.0 means that available skype
> binaries will break on Fedora 12.
>
> $ ldd /usr/bin/skype | grep so.8
>        libssl.so.8 => /usr/lib/libssl.so.8 (0x00369000)
>        libcrypto.so.8 => /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.8 (0x001fc000)
>
> I know that skype is binary-only and so on but in practical terms
> that would be a very serious trouble.  Or maybe this is only
> indirect and openssl-1.0 will work too?  No way to check that really
> in the current state of rawhide where attempts to update to any
> packages using openssl-1.0 fail on dependencies.
>
Or maybe this will prod the Skype team to actually update their Linux
client? It's long overdue. They supposedly have a version in closed
beta that works natively with Pulseaudio.

Regards,

-- 
Michel Alexandre Salim




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