Bug#548637: gnutls usage

[Simon Josefsson]

Andreas Metzler <ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org> writes:

> On 2009-09-27 Simon Josefsson <simon at josefsson.org> wrote:
>> Package: gnutls
>> Severity: wishlist
>
>> As you can see below, the Debian GnuTLS packages does not contain the
>> gnutlsxx.h C++ header file, or even the libgnutlsxx.so library as far as
>> I can tell.  How about putting gnutlsxx.h in libgnutls-dev and
>> libgnutlsxx.so in libgnutls26?
>
>> /Simon
>
>> Giuseppe Scrivano <gscrivano at gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> Hi Simon,
>
>>> I was working on this task today, but unfortunately I noticed that the
>>> gnutlsxx header is not distributed by Debian/Ubuntu (don't know about
>>> other distro's) so I can't use it right now.  Are you aware of this
>>> problem?
> [...]
>
> Hello,
>
> I used to package the C++ wrapper for Debian from version 1.5.1 until
> the next soname bump. I dropped it in 2.1.6 with this changelog entry:
>
>  * Stop building and shipping the C++ library, since nobody is using it. I
>     will happly re-add it if requested.
>
> If you think it is useful I can re-introduce it.

Yes, please.  Even though nothing in Debian will use it right away, I
think it will help to get applications written that uses it.

/Simon