[Pkg-tcltk-devel] Bug#987397: Bug#987397: tcltls: build conflict with openssl requires removal of too many packages

[Andrej Shadura]

Hi,

On Fri, 23 Apr 2021, at 11:21, Sergei Golovan wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 11:27 AM Andrej Shadura <andrewsh at debian.org> wrote:
> > While trying to build your package from the source in quite a minimal
> > container, the Build-Conflicts requirement forced the following packages
> > out:
> >
> > > ca-certificates devscripts git-buildpackage libconfig-model-dpkg-perl
> > > liblwp-protocol-https-perl libsoap-lite-perl libwww-perl libxml-parser-perl
> > > libxml-sax-expat-perl libxmlrpc-lite-perl openssl osc osc-plugin-dput
> > > osc-plugins-dput python3-certifi python3-requests
> >
> > On my normal system, it forces the removal of 358 packages including a
> > huge number of my development tools, the editor and parts of the desktop
> > environment.
> >
> > Please implement what this requirement was supposed to accomplish in a
> > different way not requiring removing openssl.
> 
> Currently, tcltls conflicts with openssl because it tries to generate
> DH pair on the fly,
> which sometimes fails due to lack of entropy on buildds. Though it
> looks like the
> newest tcltls allows one to supply option --enable-deterministic and
> get the same result.
> 
> I'll fix this bug after the bullseye's release. Thank you for pointing it out.

Thanks. Would you be okay if I went ahead with a team upload with the patch I attached if the release team grant me an unblock?

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Cheers,
  Andrej