On Sat, Sep 03, 2016 at 03:50:55PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> skribis: > > When I put "openssl" in the 'name' field, as attached, `guix build > > openssl` gives me 1.1.0, which is not right. The other *-next packages > > all seem to use "name-next" as the name. > > Yes, but it’s different. Guile 2.1, for instance, is the development > series, so it makes sense to give it a different name so users don’t end > up using the “wrong” series. > > Conversely, IIUC, OpenSSL 1.1.0 is the new stable series, no?
1.1.0 is the new stable series, but I haven't found any software that can use the new interface yet. So, I don't want to make 1.1.0 the default OpenSSL version in Guix. Does that make sense? > > Also, I wonder if this should inherit from openssl? > > > > Presumably there will be more security updates to openssl@1.0.2 before > > openssl@1.1.0 is ready for general use, and I'd wouldn't like for > > openssl@1.0.2 updates to be delayed while we wait to see if > > openssl@1.1.0 still builds with the changes. > > Though OpenSSL builds in 5–10 minutes, so the extra check wouldn’t take > so long, no? I guess it will not matter for now, since nothing will be using it. When it becomes widely used, we can revisit this question.
