Pending gnutls28 transition (openssl wrapper)

[Julien Cristau]

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 08:49:04 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:

> On 2011-10-25 Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org> wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 18:16:42 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> > > 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)
> [...] 
> > I don't understand your comment about going through NEW two times.
> 
> NEW #1: drop libgnutls-openssl27, rename libgnutls-dev to
>         libgnutls28-dev
> NEW #2: Add libgnutls-openssl27 again.
> 
libgnutls-openssl27 is already in sid, it's not going away afaict.  If
you mean "stop building it from gnutls26, build it from gnutls28
instead" then that doesn't require NEW processing.

I'm also not sure what the intention is with libgnutls-dev.  Is the plan
to have it built from gnutls28 eventually, or keep it in gnutls26?
What's the "handholding" you refer to above?

Cheers,
Julien