[Pkg-openssl-devel] Re: I would like to help with pkg-openssl

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 08:28:27PM -0700, John Jolly wrote:
> Christoph,
> 
> Thank you.  I have poked around the buglist and I have a few of questions.
> 
> First, I noticed that the project is broken up into several packages
> (openssl, libssl, libcrypto, etc.)  Is there a particular need in any
> specific package?

Note that there are 2 libraries: libcryto and libssl, they're
both in the libssl0.9.8 binary package.  There is also a
libcrytpo-udeb package for use in the debian-installer which only
contains the libcrypto lib.

The openssl package is the package that has the openssl binary
and whatever goes with it.  It makes use of the libraries
packages.

> Next, if no specific need is pressing at this time, I thought I would
> try my (novice) hand on the CA.pl script.  Seems like it could use a
> little attention.

There is nothing really urgent at this time, so I suggest you go
over the bug reports.  Note that if you look at the BTS, you can
select bugs for a certain binary package, but you can also list
all them by the source package.

> But finally, it appears that some of these bugs are already complete. 
> As an example, it appears bug #210814 is resolved.  I am able to use
> the CA.pl to create a cert and the dates on the cert, specifically the
> start date, were correct.  Chances are I am misreading the bug
> details, so any assistance would be great.

Note that #210814 was reported against version 0.9.7b-2, so can
you try a 0.9.7 version to see if you can reproduce the problem?
Maybe upstream fixed something about this, so it would be nice to
know which versions are affected, and which are fixed.  You might
also want to look that upstream knows about this bug.  If you
can't reproduce it, ask the bug submitter for more info.


Kurt