On Fri, 2016-07-22 at 19:11 +0200, Michael Stahl wrote:
On 22.07.2016 16:53, Simo Sorce wrote:
>
> On Fri, 2016-07-22 at 16:48 +0200, Tomas Mraz wrote:
> >
> >
> > 2. Add compat 1.0.2 package which would be used by 3rd party
> > applications and also temporarily by applications that are not
> > yet
> > ported to the new API. However the current plan is to not provide
> > -devel subpackage for 1.0.2 compat packages so if you needed to
> > rebuild
> > something on rawhide you would have to fix the build issues with
> > the
> > new openssl.
> >
> I am concerned about a compat package because there are a lot of
> components lining to openssl often libraries or modules, from
> different
> source RPMS. So we incur the risk of getting a binary to link with
> both
> version via modules/library dependencies and that would cause
> issues
> (probably crashes, or perhaps bad behavior) only at runtime due to
> symbol aliasing between the two versions.
urgh, yes, that's practically guaranteed to crash LibreOffice which
could pull in openssl via neon, python-stmp, postgresql-libs,
openldap,
curl, librdf, any gnome-vfs backend, and probably other ways i'm not
aware of.
As long as the symbols of both libraries are versioned, that should
cause no problem (in theory).
regards,
Nikos