Bug#658739: Broken su/sudo/whatever - breaks systems - up goes the severity

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2012-10-24 Joerg Jaspert <joerg at debian.org> wrote:
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> Maybe the rebuild without gcrypt is a solution. I don't know, I have
> no idea what other functionality then might be missing.

Hello,
It is not possible currently for Debian to use nettle instead of
gcrypt for license reasons. Nettle links against gmp which is LGPLv3+,
but some of the gnutls-using applications in Debian have an LGPLv3
incompatible license like GPLv2, e.g. cups.

The actual issue has its proper bug-report here
<http://bugs.debian.org/368297> and here
<https://bugs.launchpad.net/debian/+source/sudo/+bug/423252>, I am
keeping this one assigned to gnutls as a pointer.

cu Andreas