[pkg-bacula-devel] Bug#850895: Bug#850895: bacula: Please migrate to openssl1.1 in buster

[Carsten Leonhardt]

Hi Sebastian,

> this is a remainder about the openssl transition [0]. We really want to
> remove libssl1.0-dev from unstable for Buster. I will raise the severity
> of this bug to serious in a month. Please react before that happens.

I'm not sure what my reaction should be.

I myself will not attempt to migrate bacula to the new OpenSSL API, as
my programming experience is insufficient to touch this security
sensitive code.

Upstream does not see a pressing need because OpenSSL version 1.0.2 is
supported until 2019-12-31 - significantly longer than 1.0.2.

Are there any other distributions that already dropped, or will drop
OpenSSL v1.0 support in the near future that I can use as an argument
for upstream?

Lastly, the bug is tagged "help" for quite some time already, but help
doesn't seem to be forthcoming.

Regards,

Carsten