On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 04:34:16PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 06:36:58PM -0400, Peter Colberg wrote: > > I am suggesting to provide two variants of libgit2, without and with > > support for https://, with the latter linking to OpenSSL, similar to > > the multiple variants of libcurl. > > > > https://bugs.debian.org/832798 > > That would be a maintenance pain, and it would still mean that GPLed > applications couldn't use libgit2 with https URLs. (It might work as a > temporary solution, but it doesn't seem like the right long-term > solution.)
The julia maintainers have proposed to libgit2 upstream to support mbedTLS [1] as an alternative. That is a long-term solution however that will take another year to ship in the form of julia 0.6.0. It would be great if we could have the OpenSSL variant of libgit2 as a temporary solution to allow for julia 0.5.0 in stretch. I will help with the maintenance of the additional package. Peter [1] https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/3462
