On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 05:21:59PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote: > On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 07:49:07PM -0400, Peter Colberg wrote: > > 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. > > I don't think it'd take a year to do this. If libgit2 upstream added > support for a new TLS transport, I'd be happy to help get the new > upstream version of libgit2 packaged for Debian right away. I already > need the latest upstream version for another project.
My estimate was based on this comment [1], which refers to a solution using MbedTLS as a custom TLS stream with libgit2 [2, 3]. This was(?) planned for julia 0.6.0, which could indeed take a year until release. Transparently supporting MbedTLS in upstream libgit2 [4] seems a much better solution and will work with julia 0.5.0 out of the box. Thanks for advocating this proposal to the upstream maintainer. Peter [1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/17661#issuecomment-235963167 [2] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/17471 [3] https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/3850 [4] https://github.com/libgit2/libgit2/pull/3462
