nettle 3.0

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2014-07-06 Magnus Holmgren <holmgren at debian.org> wrote:
> As you may have noticed, I uploaded Nettle 3.0 to experimental a while ago. 
> I'm not planning on uploading it to unstable until GnuTLS is ready for it, 
> however. I think I've tested building all dependent packages with nettle-dev 
> 3.0 and all of them compile, except gnutls28, which seems to be affected by 
> the API changes and/or use internal fields. What do you think? Can we get 
> Nettle 3.0 into jessie? Do we need to?

Hello,

I read the nettle 3.0 announcement as "This is not a stable release."
;-)

   There may be some problems in the new interfaces and new
   features which really need incompatible fixes. It is likely
   that there will be an update in the form of a 3.1 release in
   the not too distant future, with small but incompatible
   changes, and if that happens, bugfix-only releases 3.0.x are
   unlikely. Users and applications which desire better API and
   ABI stability are advised to stay with nettle-2.7.x (latest
   version is now 2.7.1) until the dust settles.

GnuTLS will eventually support newer nettle, but probably not in time
for jessie.

http://lists.gnutls.org/pipermail/gnutls-devel/2014-June/006977.html
| Nettle 3.0 broke API and ABI and porting gnutls to it would take some
| time. As its API and ABI aren't stable yet and there are no new
| features we urgently need from it, porting to it is not on my
| immediate plans.

http://lists.gnutls.org/pipermail/gnutls-devel/2014-June/006980.html
| We will eventually use it in gnutls, but that would be after 3.3 is
| declared as stable (on the 3.4 branch, hopefully with the new chacha
| cipher).

hth, cu Andreas
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