On Sun, 2018-11-25 at 13:49 +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote: > With the intention of pushing OpenSSL 1.1.0j into Stretch here is the > proposed change for python-cryptography. > The package python-cryptography fails to build due to an API change > of BIO_callback_ctrl() in OpenSSL. While this is a no-no in a stable > release, it has been explained [0] that the function / callback was > always used with a different prototype. I fixed this by removing the > function / prototype from the python wrapper while upstream removed > the almost all BIO related wrappers [1]. > I did a rebuild of python-cryptography's rdeps in Stretch against > OpenSSL 1.1.0i and the proposed package with no fallout [2].
Just to be 100% sure on the scope here, those rebuilds were just for confirmation? i.e. they are not required if we go ahead. Regards, Adam