On Tue, Jul 2, 2024 at 7:35 AM Iñaki Ucar <iu...@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> This recent commit [1] in rawhide moves the engine API to a 
> openssl-devel-engine subpackage following [2] (BTW this change announced that 
> it would be openssl-engine-devel instead, but that's not the point). I'm 
> surprised that FESCo approved this change without any analysis of the impact 
> and the packages that required adaptation and how. Also, change owners are 
> now allowed to commit and just let things break?
>
> One major concern is that I see this in a package that does **not** use the 
> engine API:
>
> /usr/include/boost/asio/ssl/detail/openssl_types.hpp:26:11: fatal error: 
> openssl/engine.h: No such file or directory
>    26 | # include <openssl/engine.h>
>       |           ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> compilation terminated.
>
> What are we supposed to do here? Aren't we allowed to add new packages to 
> Fedora that require Boost ASIO because we would need to add a deprecated 
> package to BR, even if the package itself doesn't use that API?
>
> [1] 
> https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/openssl/c/e67e9d9c40cd2cb9547e539c658e2b63f2736762?branch=rawhide
> [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/OpensslDeprecateEngine
>

The subpackage will probably need to lose its deprecated status, since
it cannot be deprecated anytime in the next decade, due to
insufficient alternatives.

Notably, we need it for Fedora itself, so it would kind of suck if we
can't use it.




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