Pending gnutls28 transition (openssl wrapper)

[Julien Cristau]

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 18:16:42 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:

> Dear maintainers of packages linking against libgnutls-openssl27,
> 
> I will soon upload gnutls28 to unstable.[1] The package will use a new
> name (libgnutls28-dev instead libgnutls-dev) for the development
> package since many packages will require some handholding. 
> 
> However I would like to switch the libgnutls-openssl27 package over to
> the new source package. (The alternative approach is to not build and
> install the openssl wrapper library from gnutls28 immediately and go
> through NEW two times) The packages using this compatibility wrapper
> should not do any interesting things with gnutls and should just
> continue to work.
> 
I don't understand your comment about going through NEW two times.  I
also don't understand why that would be a problem, even if it was
necessary.

Cheers,
Julien