Andreas Metzler <ametz...@downhill.at.eu.org> writes: > On 2009-08-08 Andreas Metzler <ametz...@downhill.at.eu.org> wrote: > [...] >> Upstream seems to have changed the code to require installation of >> both gcrypt and tasn versions that greater or equal version gnutls >> was built against. > >> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnutls.git/commit/?h=gnutls_2_8_x&id=ce23654ab3b8097241c1639ebe3e853c4f67b6d7 >> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnutls.git/commit/?id=35bd51b3b42dd437a9914a908af45d78fec76856 > [...] >> (See http://bugs.debian.org/495473 for comparison.) > > Hello, > The gnutls 2.8 series will absolutely fail to work if the currently > installed version of libtasn1 or libgcrypt is not greater or equal > than the version gnutls was built against. This is much too cautious > since the libtasn1 ABI has not changed at all since 1.6. A gnutls > binary built against libtasn1 2.3 will work perfectly fiine with e.g. > libtasn1 2.0. > > It also makes our (Debian and probably other distributors) life > unnecessary difficult, without any benefit for us, we already track > ABI through dependencies. > > Please undo these changes, proposed patch against GIT HEAD attached. > thanks, cu andreas
Hi. Just in time for the 2.8.2 release. :-) I applied it somewhat differently, see: http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/gnutls.git/commit/?id=860605be8f3b344738548ecfe0f1a6e6cb357c0b Thanks, /Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
