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

[Michael Biebl]

On Wed, 30 Sep 2020 20:09:10 +0300 =?UTF-8?B?T3R0byBLZWvDpGzDpGluZW4=?=
<otto at debian.org> 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.

Or just ignore the alleged OpenSSL issue and simply use the system
libssl. It's a home-made problem by Debian and not everyone agrees that
this OpenSSL licensing issue is actually valid.

I opted to do that e.g. in librelp, see
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=951911

Regards,
Michael

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