[Python-modules-team] Bug#736525: python-gnutls: please rebuild python-gnutls against newer GnuTLS API (libgnutls28-dev)

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2014-01-24 Dimitri John Ledkov <xnox at debian.org> wrote:
> On 24 January 2014 15:24, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman.net> wrote:
>> Package: python-gnutls
>> Version: 1.2.4-1
>> Severity: normal

>> libgnutls26 is an older API that is unsupported upstream.  Please
>> rebuild python-gnutls against libgnutls28-dev, which is the
>> upstream-supported API.


> Please see all the discussion around license incompatibilities of
> gnutls28 vs 26, and openssl.

> GnuTLS 28 is GPLv3 only, and if python-gnutls is rebuild against 28,
> then all reverse-dependencies must be compatible with GPLv3.
[...]

Hello,

this is no longer true. GMP has been relicensed in April. The GnuTLS 3 stack is now effectively dual licensed LGPLv3+ / GPLv2+.

Speaking with my gnutls maintainer head: I do not intend to ship
gnutls26 in jessie.

thanks, cu Andreas
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