[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#856984: fis-gtm: please enable openssl support

[Shah, Amul]

Hi Sebastian,

From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior [mailto:sebastian at breakpoint.cc] Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2017 9:08 AM
On 2017-12-13 08:33:02 [+0100], Andreas Tille wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 08:50:57PM +0000, Shah, Amul wrote:
> somehow this email never reached me or I skipped it by accident.
[amul] I blame the Outlook formatting! It would make anyone not want to read email! ;)

>> > If I understood your question correctly, you are asking for the fis-gtm
>> > package to either enable openssl OR drop the libssl-dev requirement.
>> >
>> > We dropped the openssl using encryption plugin libraries from the
>> > distributed package because of the "openssl advertising clause". To work
>> > around the advertising clause, we distribute our encryption plugin
>> > libraries as source, letting the end users that desire encryption support
>> > compile it for themselves. So we can't enable openssl.
>> >
>> > The fis-gtm package builds the encryption plugin sources as a
>> > compatibility test build. That compatibility test build alerted us to the
>> > upcoming changes in openssl 1.1. So we won't drop the libssl-dev
>> > requirement.
>> >
>> > If the above makes sense, I would like to close this bug. If you have some
>> > other option, let me know.
>
>That makes sense. I wanted to ensure that you don't depend on it for no reason
>or that openssl support is disabled because the new openssl is not properly
>detected (we had both cases it the past). If I remember correctly, then I
>could not find a difference to build and without libssl-dev and the changelog
>said that encryption was temporary disabled (or something like that).

[amul] Understood and I agree with your stance. There is no need for
dependencies that get in the way of moving forward.

>If you are saying that as part of the build process you do use openssl and
>that the build would fail if the openssl library would have changed/ became
>incompatible for the source you distribute then this is fine.

[amul] That is what I am saying. Can we close this bug?

Thanks - Amul
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