[Pkg-julia-devel] Linking libgit2 to OpenSSL

[Peter Colberg]

On Thu, Jul 28, 2016 at 03:26:46PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> Unfortunately, libgit2 also doesn't seem to support any TLS library
> other than OpenSSL.  That's a serious problem for GPLed software, and
> Debian already has some GPLed software linking to libgit2 (which led to
> the switch to link against the gnutls version of libcurl).

I am suggesting to provide two variants of libgit2, without and with
support for https://, with the latter linking to OpenSSL, similar to
the multiple variants of libcurl.

https://bugs.debian.org/832798

Peter