[Pkg-openssl-devel] Planning the removal of c_rehash | mass bug filling

[Dimitri John Ledkov]

On 5 April 2018 at 23:22, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
<sebastian at breakpoint.cc> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> the openssl package provides the c_rehash script which creates the links
> from XXXXXXXX.Y to the actual certificate in /etc/ssl/certs/. During the
> transition from 0.9.8 to 1.0.0 the hash (for the X part) changed from
> md5 to sha1. Since that transition in Debian the c_rehash script
> provides both symlinks: the old hash (md5) and the new (sha1) one.
>
> The c_rehash script is considered by upstream as a fallback script and
> will disappear at some point. The recommended way is to use the "openssl
> rehash" command instead which appeared in 1.1.0.  This command creates
> half that many symlinks (one per certificate instead of two) because it
> uses only the sha1 hash. There is also the -compat option which creates
> both symlinks (and behaves like c_rehash currently does) but as
> explained above it should not be required to use it.
>
> I am planning to fill bugs against 23 packages which use "c_rehash" to
> use "openssl rehash" instead. Here is the dd-list of packages I
> identified:
>

Sounds reasonable.

ps. Even to the point of simply uploading massNMU to fix these instead
of filing bugs, but I am aware that's not how Debian operates.

-- 
Regards,

Dimitri.