[libvirt] [PATCH] tests: adapt to gnutls change in dname en-/decoding

Christian Ehrhardt christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com
Thu Nov 17 07:12:57 UTC 2016


On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 4:44 PM, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com>
wrote:

> NACK, the gnutls changes are being reverted by upstream and IMHO
> if any distro is shipping 3.5.6 they should revert them too, as
> the change was a semantic break in gnutls API that will in turn
> break any libvirt deployments using this feature when upgraded
>

Thats kind of what I thought when seeing the effect of the change, but I
didn't find that upstream reverted that yesterday.
Thanks for pointing this out as it makes more sense this way.

Explicitly looking for it I found the change in gnutls which is not yet
released in any version:

commit 70bf8475bb0ab178fe36ee4c601a6cfec8e70a3f
Author: Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos <nmav at redhat.com>
Date:   Fri Nov 11 16:20:01 2016 +0100

    Introduced new functions to allow multiple DN parsing modes

    The old DN parsing functions are changed to return the original
    non-fully compliant with RFC4514 string format, while the new
    ones return the compliant string by default. This allows applications
    which relied on the previous format to continue functioning without
    changes.


-- 
Christian Ehrhardt
Software Engineer, Ubuntu Server
Canonical Ltd
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