[Python-modules-team] Bug#515200: Bug#515200: Making your own package to work around the bugs in gnutls

[Mike Palmer]

Hi Sandro,

Only based on what I know and given the current state of gnutls I would 
just go with openssl for now. That matches how curl is currently 
compiled at least.

shell~# curl --version
curl 7.18.2 (i486-pc-linux-gnu) libcurl/7.18.2 OpenSSL/0.9.8g 
zlib/1.2.3.3 libidn/1.8 libssh2/0.18
Protocols: tftp ftp telnet dict ldap ldaps http file https ftps scp sftp
Features: GSS-Negotiate IDN IPv6 Largefile NTLM SSL libz

I don't know of a way to do both, you could do what Dima proposes but I 
think you'd need to convince the curl maintainers to change curl-config 
in both libcurl4-gnutls-dev and libcurl4-openssl-dev as well. Example: 
so debian/rules can point to things like curl-config-openssl and 
curl-config-gnutls or something.

I agree about licensing being better on gnutls but I'd rather have 
functionality and reliability first, then licensing with multiple viable 
options present. Maybe when a few things like this are squashed in the 
libgnutls codebase then switch back over to it down the road.

Best Regards,

-Mike