[Pkg-openssl-devel] symbol versioning

[Christoph Martin]

Hi,

while introducing openssl 0.9.8 in Debian we found (as expected) abi
conflicts with version 0.9.7. The problem is that programs and libraries
now have complex dependencies with libssl et.al . If you think for
example of pam. Different pam modules can link to different versions of
openssl, which will lead to segmentation faults.

The method to prevent this is symbol versioning.

Did you think about introducing this (at least for linux)?

If we do so, all the distributions should try to coordinate this work to
have the same symbols. The goal ist to have LSB compatible libraries and
binaries.

Christoph
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