[debian-mysql] Bug#971367: Bug#971367: Bug#971367: Bug#971367: mariadb-10.5 should not embed wolfssl

Moritz Mühlenhoff jmm at inutil.org
Fri Oct 2 18:19:48 BST 2020


On Wed, Sep 30, 2020 at 08:09:10PM +0300, Otto Kekäläinen wrote:
> Control: forwarded -1 https://jira.mariadb.org/browse/MDEV-21835
> 
> Note that the upstream MariaDB uses OpenSSL both for building the
> server and the client. In Debian OpenSSL is forbidden in the current
> state (or so has e.g. Clint Byrum stated), so in Debian we build using
> alternatives, which for the server means GnuTLS and for the client
> WolfSSL (former YaSSL).
> 
> The long term solution is to wait for OpenSSL 3.0 to be released and
> build against it (as it has no license issues). The short term
> solution is to hope for upstream to add support for building the
> client with the system WolfSSL library.

Fair enough, removing RC severity here.

Cheers,
        Moritz



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