[pkg-bacula-devel] Bug#828244: bacula: FTBFS with openssl 1.1.0

[Carsten Leonhardt]

Hi Kurt,

> OpenSSL 1.1.0 is about to released.  During a rebuild of all packages using
> OpenSSL this package fail to build.  A log of that build can be found at:
> https://breakpoint.cc/openssl-1.1-rebuild-2016-05-29/Attempted/bacula_7.4.0+dfsg-1_amd64-20160529-1407
[...]
> If you have problems making things work, feel free to contact us.

I've just got feedback from upstream:

> From what they write, it seems unlikely we will want to support the
> newer version for some time. This is because of the comment that if
> you do support the new version, old versions will not compile. This is
> not an option for us.

> What distro is currently using OpenSSL 1.1?"

Is the plan still to have OpenSSL 1.1 in stretch? There were several
concerns raised in the thread following your announcement in June.

Are upstreams concerns valid?

The upstream bug report is at (use anonymous/anonymous for read only
access):

http://bugs.bacula.org/view.php?id=2247

 - Carsten