On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 09:39:51PM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
>...
> since everything not
> shipped Debian wise would be suddenly linked againt libssl-1.1 while it
> might have been compiled against an earlier version.
The handling of non-packaged software is not perfect, but there's
precedent for changing the package name without changing the soname
(e.g. check the conflicts of the libstdc++6 package in stretch).
> Maybe it would be wise to suggest to upstream to bump major 4 to a 5 to
> signal that this libcurl exposes the libssl1.1 ABI now.
"now" was 2016.
Back then this would have been a valid point, but after other
distributions already ship with OpenSSL 1.1 and the old libcurl
soname it is too late for that.
The package name is the only thing we can change without diverging from
other distributions.
> Sebastian
cu
Adrian
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