[Pkg-openssl-devel] Should OpenSSL/ libssl3 depend on brotli?

[Guillem Jover]

Hi!

On Sat, 2024-09-07 at 00:12:58 +0200, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:
> Is it okay for libssl3 do depend on libbrotli? It would increase minimal
> installs by ~900KiB on amd64.
> tl;dr

> coreutils build-depends on libssl-dev which makes libssl essential.
> libssl already supports compression via libz and zstd. Both libraries
> are already pulled in by dpkg so letting libssl depend on them did not
> change much.

Perhaps an alternative option would be to switch coreutils to use
libmd instead of libcrypto? It seems to contain all the needed algos
that are currently used by coreutils, and it is already part of the
pseudo-essential set via dpkg and passwd via libbsd. This would reduce
the pseudo-essential set size, and also free you from this constraint
when deciding whether to include brotli (or future new dependencies).

Thanks,
Guillem