On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 03:32:52AM +0100, Mats Erik Andersson wrote: > Hello again, > > my clarification follows. > > fredag den 11 december 2009 klockan 02:13 skrev Hector Oron detta: > > Hi, > > > > 2009/12/11 Mats Erik Andersson <mats.anders...@gisladisker.se>: > > > out of curiosity: Does mbuffer now prefer libmhash over libssl? > > > That has been troublesome in the past. > > > > The documentation of the upstream author states that he prefers > libmhash over libssl. At about the same time as Peter Pentchev > made his first packaging of mbuffer this past summer, I found a > mistake in the upstreams configure.in template, which made libssl > the first choice, then libgnutls, and lastly libmhash, in case > more than one library would be present. > > I did submit a patch to the upstream author Thomas Komor on this, > which he acknowledged. It seemed to me to be a better choice in > building a package for Debian by using the small library libmhash, > rather than to invoke libgnutls. The Debian Policy rules against > libssl in this situation because of mixed licences. But then again, > Peter Pentchev has invested time in his adaption for libgnutls, > which certainly is a factor here.
I'll switch to libmhash in the next version of the Debian package of mbuffer, which should be coming up in a week or so. I've been in private e-mail communication with Thomas Komor about the two patches marked as "Forwarded: yes" (the non-Debian-specific ones), and he said, among other things, that he will release a new upstream version soon, maybe over the weekend. Thus, a new Debian upload should be coming up shortly, too. In the meantime, Laszlo Boeszoermenyi (g...@debian.org) uploaded this version yesterday, and it has just been accepted by the FTP masters. Thanks a lot to Hector and Mats (or is it Mats Erik?) for the review, the cross-compile reminder (I had it in mind for a future upload, too) and the libmhash idea! G'luck, Peter -- Peter Pentchev r...@ringlet.net r...@space.bg r...@freebsd.org PGP key: http://people.FreeBSD.org/~roam/roam.key.asc Key fingerprint 2EE7 A7A5 17FC 124C F115 C354 651E EFB0 2527 DF13 If you think this sentence is confusing, then change one pig.
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