move to openssl-1.0 and skype

[Tomas Mraz]

On Sat, 2009-08-29 at 14:08 -0600, Michal Jaegermann 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.
> 
> If /usr/lib/libssl.so.8 is really required would be possible to have
> 'compat-openssl' for that?

I certainly will not have any problem if someone submits
compat-openssl-098k for review. I do not plan to do add that package
myself though.

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Tomas Mraz
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