[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#753033: gnustep-base: Please build against gnutls28 / uses gcrypt without gcrypt dependency

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2014-07-02 Yavor Doganov <yavor at gnu.org> wrote:
> At Sat, 28 Jun 2014 19:10:27 +0200,
> Andreas Metzler wrote:
>> Please note that just switching build-depends is not enough, since
>> gnustep-base uses gcrypt directly, too. However afaict the only
>> gcrypt usage is the thread related code in Source/GSSocketStream.m.

> Thanks.  My patch was accepted upstream (the affected code is in
> Source/GSTLS.m in newer releases),

Great news, thanks.

> but I'd like to ask how urgent is
> this fix.  I want to get rid of the old GNUstep libraries (release.d.o
> #673538) and if possible, to delay fixing this bug until the GNUstep
> transition begins (we are ready, currently waiting only for a sponsor
> for a bunch of packages).

> I would like to avoid further uploads of gnustep-base/1.22 as it is
> going away.

It is something that needs to be fixed for jessie. So it is not live
or death urgent, but should not linger for months.

cu Andreas

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