[Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#954371: Bug#954371: libio-socket-ssl-perl: FTBFS since openssl 1.1.1e

[Steffen Ullrich]

> You should fix your tests not to trigger an unexpected EOF. You
> probably have code now that ignores the current error, you
> shouldn't ignore that error, it's a real error.

Fixing the tests to only consider an ideal world of nicely behaving peers is
in my opinion the wrong way to go.  Instead I think that it is very useful
to have tests which include bad behaved peers since such peers are
unfortunately a reality. And it would be good if IO::Socket::SSL would
provide a defined and stable behavior in such situations and that the tests
check this. As for how this behavior should exactly look like I'm not fully
sure yet and I have to figure this out before OpenSSL 3.0.0 gets released.

But in any case I rather have the tests fail early (like they also failed
with Python and Ruby) when OpenSSL changes behavior in edge cases than have
the users code fail somewhere later in production. 

Regards,
Steffen

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