[Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#338313: zlib wanted when building against openssl

[Alex Hudson]

Package: libssl-dev
Version: 0.9.8a-3

The package libssl0.9.8 in testing/unstable has a new dependency on
zlib1g which isn't present in libssl0.9.7 in stable. When compiling
software against the matching libssl-dev, autotools seems to add -lz
into the needed openssl flags, causing bugs such as #337873 (this bug
was caused by a unrelated NMU, which happened to take place after libssl
was updated).

Now, given the software being compiled (hula, in this case) doesn't have
a dependency on zlib, -lz shouldn't be being added - you shouldn't need
to link to zlib in order to link to openssl. So, I'm assuming this is a
shlibs problem on libssl-dev?

Thanks,

Alex.