Mike Miller <mtmil...@octave.org> writes: > On Wed, Aug 10, 2016 at 00:00:59 +0800, Alex Vong wrote: >> So, we drop the optional dependency to avoid the problem. > > Precisely what is the optional dependency that is dropped? > > Octave does not directly link with OpenSSL nor use any OpenSSL > functions. The Octave package on Debian builds with all optional > dependencies enabled, and the resulting binary is linked with GnuTLS.
The “openssl” package (along with “cyrus-sasl”) was added as a new input to our “octave” package in commit b7b27a8f28746a488eeee489c71053059dc5a8dc, along with the upgrade from 4.0.0 to 4.0.2. I don’t know why this was done. Maybe Kei could shed some light on this. ~~ Ricardo
