Bug#743746: jruby: has poor cryptographic support

[Miguel Landaeta]

tags 743746 + confirmed
owner 743746 !
thanks

On Sat, Apr 05, 2014 at 09:52:25PM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:
> Package: jruby
> Version: 1.5.6-7
> Severity: normal
> 
> JRuby has really bad cryptographic support.  First, many algorithms are
> missing.  The output directs me to the jruby-openssl gem, but that isn't
> packaged.  If JRuby requires that gem in order to be as functional as
> MRI, then it needs to be packaged and be an appropriate dependency (at
> least a Recommends, if not a Depends) of jruby.  In this era,
> cryptography is not an optional component.

Hi Brian,

Sorry for the delay to answer this issue.

We (pkg-java team) intend to upload very soon an updated package with
a new upstream release (1.7.19).

I'm aware of this issue, jruby-openssl needs to be packaged and we
take care of it soon.

Thanks,

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