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

[Moritz Mühlenhoff]

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.

Hi Otto,
FTP masters changed their assessment on treating OpenSSL as a system
library, see the FTP meeting log at
http://meetbot.debian.net/debian-ftp/2020/debian-ftp.2020-03-13-20.02.html
and the followup discussion at
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2020/10/msg00165.html

As such, you can switch to OpenSSL without needing to wait for OpenSSL 3.0 \o/

Cheers,
        Moritz