Bug#362754: [Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#362754: Removal of RC5 and MDC2 algorithms is not clearly documented

[Ilya Konstantinov]

Kurt Roeckx wrote:

> Note that all of them have been removed since 0.9.6b-3 (in 2001)
> because of patent problems.  You really can't say that we
> modified the library's exported functions, since it never had
> them in the first place.  They only existed in non-us, in a
> library with different soname.
>   
Oh, you seem to be right about non-US.
> But maybe we should document this somewhere.
>
>   

I've given you some ideas where I'd expect to find such documentation. I 
wonder if it's possible to replace those missing exports (like 
EVP_rc5_32_12_16_cbc) with something that causes the linker to print an 
explanation message, just like inherently-unsafe libc functions 
(tempnam, mktemp?) do.

For an example of how to do it, please see:
http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java/2005-04/msg00160.html