[Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#843064: Bug#843064: Bug#843064: openssl: incompatibility for enc command between openssl 1.1.0b-2 and previous 1.0.x versions

[Marek Lukaszuk]

On 2016-11-07 13:25:55PM +0100, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> On 2016-11-03 22:15:50 [+0100], Marek Lukaszuk wrote:
> > Thanks, it works, I feel like an idiot for not finding this.
> it wasn't documented. how should you find it? I just figured it out
> myself.

True, but in retrospect it is obvious that checking for changes in the
defaults would be the best place to start, I was a bit lazy/busy that day ;).
 
> > > Let me see what upstream says…
> > 
> > It is a bit of a surprise, normally I would argue for a bit more clear error
> > message but in this case I'm not sure if that would be ok.
> 
> I will try to add something to the error message (more than just
> "decompression failed") and maybe something to the news file. Will check
> with Kurt. The c release is around the corner…

I'm following the conversation on openssl-dev mailing list. 
I've checked the package changelog using "aptitude changelog openssl"
before opening the ticket, so maybe putting it somewhere there would be
a good thing, but probably news file and man page would help also lot.

Marek