On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 11:42:23AM +0200, Gert Doering wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 11:29:28AM +0200, Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta wrote: > > There're already packages for PolarSSL in Debian (and thus, in Ubuntu). > > So I don't think there's need to maintain different ones. > > What's Debian's stance on PolarSSL 1.2.x vs. 1.3.x? This is something > that had me worried for a while, as they are plain incompatible - so > if we finally merge Steffan's patch for Polar 1.3.x support to git master, > different OpenVPN versions will require different PolarSSL versions as > well > > openvpn 2.3.x -> needs PolarSSL 1.2.x, will not build or run with 1.3.x > openvpn 2.4.x -> needs PolarSSL 1.3.x, will not build or run with 1.2.x > > (the decision to not-support PolarSSL 1.2.x in parallel to 1.3.x saves > OpenVPN a lot of #ifdefs in our code, but pushes the burden to the > distribution maintainers)
I guess the best solution would be to go for 1.3.x support and backport polarssl to Squeeze and Wheezy. I could contact the polarssl maintainer to see how doable that is. -- Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta | Formación, consultoría y soporte técnico mailto/sip: a...@inittab.org | en GNU/Linux y software libre Encrypted mail preferred | http://inittab.com Key fingerprint = 5347 CBD8 3E30 A9EB 4D7D 4BF2 009B 3375 6B9A AA55
