[Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#1011391: openssl: please support quictls patchset

[Vincent Bernat]

 ❦ 22 May 2022 16:50 +02, Sakirnth Nagarasa:

> This patchset of OpenSSL is necessary to build the crypto helper
> libraries for ngtcp2 with OpenSSL as well.

HAProxy is also a user of such a fork. It should be noted the fork is
backed by Akamai and Microsoft and is able to release updated versions
the same day as OpenSSL and they managed to make the library
coinstallable with the regular OpenSSL one. So, we could also provide a
libssl3-quick library.

Willy Tarreau already asked the team for QuicTLS packaging without an
answer:

https://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-openssl-devel/2021-October/007668.html

My opinion is that we cannot rely on OpenSSL to provide a solution in
the near term (no work is currently done). As the number of downstream
projects increase, users will try to find a solution. It would be better
to have a solution backed at least partially by their distribution.

It would be nice to have some kind of feedback to know how things are on
the Debian side for this OpenSSL fork.
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