[Pkg-openssl-devel] Bug#844160: openssl 1.1 and apache2

[Kurt Roeckx]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 10:26:48PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 08:36:49PM +0100, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 03:06:44PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > > Stefan Fritsch <sf at debian.org> writes:
> > > 
> > > > I must admit that I did not think of php when doing that change, sorry. 
> > > 
> > > > On the other hand, shibboleth-sp2 also build-depends on apache2-dev and there 
> > > > have been some indications that shibboleth won't be switching to openssl 1.1 
> > > > for stretch. See https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2016/11/msg00024.html
> > > 
> > > It turns out that Shibboleth will be okay if Apache goes to 1.1.  The
> > > Shibboleth code that goes into Apache is isolated from the OpenSSL use
> > > inside Shibboleth, so we can keep building Shibboleth against 1.0 and
> > > Apache can go to 1.1 and all the pieces are happy.  (The OpenSSL work is
> > > done in a separate daemon, shibd, that the Apache module talks to.)
> > 
> > So I looked at apache2-dev to see why it depends on libssl-dev.
> > The only thing I can find is that mod_ssl_openssl.h provides some
> > hooks, and you actually get SSL_CTX * and SSL * in there. But
> > nothing in Debian seems to include that file.
> 
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=828330#16
> 
> Where is that dependency on the same OpenSSL version coming from?

Like I just said, it exposes the SSL_CTX * and SSL *, and you need
to use them with the same version that created them.


Kurt