[Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#895547: Bug#895547: openssl: After symbol versioning, distributed pkgs are missing API symbols (e.g. EVP_PKEY_asn1_set_item)

[Nicola]

On 13 April 2018 at 22:45, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
<sebastian at breakpoint.cc> wrote:
> On 2018-04-12 13:08:57 [+0000], Nicola Tuveri wrote:
>> Package: openssl
>> Version: 1.0.2l-1~bpo8+1
>> Severity: important
>> Tags: patch
>
> backports?
>

Yes, old-stable backports.

>> I marked this bug as important, as it stops everyone using official
>> debian packages from using third-party ENGINEs that require to use that
>> function to set special handling of ASN.1 format, which basically
>> includes every ENGINE that would add support for cryptosystems that
>> upstream OpenSSL does not support (defying the purpose of using some
>> ENGINEs).
>
> Not everyone. It should work in stable, doesn't it?

Yes, my application does work in stable. Has symbol versioning been
completely disabled there?

Or am I just lucky that the function I need was whitelisted when the
versioning script was created for the new release, but the same bug
can still resurface for the symbol OPENSSL_foobar_magic in future
OpenSSL 1.1.0x?



Thanks for your reply,

Nicola