On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 06:34:09PM CEST, ng0 <n...@we.make.ritual.n0.is> said: > I am not subscribed and don't plan to - please keep me in CC when > replying. > > Hi, > > I am in the position where I have to run at least one Debian > stable based server, and with the recent upgrade of a search > engine, I can no longer use its proxy functionality. > This would require a version of OpenSSL which is not available in > Debian stable at this point. > > When is the next release candidate of Debian planed which would > version bump openssl? > If it's more than half a year from now (or in general): > It might be a bad idea to build openssl from source, but I'm > already running many things from source as I can't run guix at > this moment on the server, to be able to use some software. > Would building openssl from source and then having an update > later on from Debian break something or this process break > something in general? > I am not very familiar with building for Debian with the debian > specific tools, my focus is at other systems. >
You can also get the openssl from backports and keep your stable, but with a backported recent openssl.
