Bug#334813: [Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#334813: libssl0.9.7: now need source package openssl097 compiled to build other apps that require openssl 0.9.7

[Arthur Marsh]

Hi, the ckermit package in Debian (which doesn't use openssl) hasn't 
been updated in ages.

To use C-Kermit in Debian with openssl support I have been using the 
C-Kermit source from ftp://ftp.columbia.edu/kermit/test/tar.

If you look in recent discussion in the newsgroup 
comp.protocols.kermit.misc with the subject:

"c-kermit +ssl compile fails with syntax error before numeric constant"

you will see that C-Kermit compiled with the openssl makefile option 
will fail on openssl 0.9.8 (confirmed by C-Kermit co-author Jeffrey Altman).

In any case, I believe the openssl097-dev package should remain in 
Debian until all packages and programs that require it are available 
with openssl 0.9.8 support.

Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 12:01:42PM +0930, Arthur Marsh wrote:
> 
>>Hi, I had tried compiling C-Kermit with openssl 0.9.8 using 
>>-DOPENSSL_097 and received compilation failures.
> 
> 
> Can you please give more details about what is failing?  Some
> error messages?
> 
> PS: Is there a package for this in Debian?  It might be easier to
> look at it.
> 
> 
> Kurt
> 
>