* Jay Berkenbilt: > I'm about to release qpdf 10. Someone contributed an openssl crypto > provider. Do you think I should build with the qpdf packages for > debian with 1) only gnutls, 2) only openssl, or 3) both gnutls and > openssl? Option 3 allows users to select at runtime but makes qpdf > dependent on both packages. I notice that systemd also depends on > openssl. My impulse is to go with option 1 (gnutls only) because I > really don't see any advantage in the OS package letting users > choose at runtime which crypto to use, but including both cryptos > probably doesn't ultimately affect what gets installed on anyone's > system since openssl is basically always going to be there.
This seems to be more of a query for debian-devel, to be honest. Two packages do not seem particularly useful to me. Since apt depends on libgnutls30, I don't see how an OpenSSL backend for qpdf could minimize installation size. This suggests to me that you should stick with GNUTLS for Debian.
