Control: tags -1 confirmed

On 25/12/17 18:11, László Böszörményi (GCS) wrote:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: transition
> 
> Hi RMs,
> 
> libsodium had to change the soname with 1.0.15 due to an API break by
> the following.
> "The aes128ctr primitive was removed. It was slow, non-standard, not
> authenticated, and didn't seem to be used by any opensource project."
> 
> This is not 100% true, fastd (Fast and Secure Tunnelling Daemon) did
> use it and doesn't compile with new libsodium releases. Issue is known
> and has a fix[1] already. Package maintainer Cc-ed (who is also
> upstream) as a heads-up.
> 
> pysodium doesn't compile in Sid even, the self-test failure
> (test_crypto_pwhash) reason is unknown to me.
> 
> Version 1.0.16 of libsodium is in experimental and built on all
> relevant architectures. Others are still pending. Especially on
> kFreeBSD ones that have a big lag. :(

DSA shut down the kfreebsd buildds.

> Hope this transition can be acknowledged.

Please go ahead.

Cheers,
Emilio

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