Pending gnutls28 transition (openssl wrapper)

[Julien Cristau]

On Mon, Oct 31, 2011 at 10:09:41 +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:

> On 2011-10-28 Julien Cristau <jcristau at debian.org> wrote:
> [...] 
> > 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?
> 
> The main point is to drop gnutls26 eventually. Building libgnutls-dev
> from gnutls28 again will probably be a step on that road.
> 
> > What's the "handholding" you refer to above?
> 
> * Check license compatibilty.
> * There is API breakage.[1] Some functions have been dropped,
>   multithreaded programs usually need a change.
> * Some packages  wich use both gcrypt and gnutls directly might need
>   not only an added build-dependency on gcrypt but also updated
>   autoconf code to add gcrypt, since it is no longer automatically
>   pulled in by gnutls.
> 
Hrm.  This sounds like a major pain...

Cheers,
Julien