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Re: MAINTAINERS: New OpenSSL 0.9.8 release


At 09:45 AM 7/6/2005 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi Maintainers of
>
>  neon
>  curl
>  exim
>  fetchmail
>  links
>  lynx
>  mutt
>  openssh
>  pine
>  postgresql
>  python
>  stunnel
>  uw-imap
>  wget
>  lftp
>  xemacs
>  openldap
>  lighttpd
>  clamav
>  GNOME
>  cyrus-sasl
>  w3m
>
>I've just uploaded the brand new OpenSSL release 0.9.8.  This release
>is ABI incompatible to the former 0.9.7 release, so the new DLLs are
>named cygcrypto-0.9.8.dll and cygssl-0.9.8.dll.
>
>The old cygcrypto-0.9.7.dll and cygssl-0.9.7.dll are now packed in a
>new package called openssl097.
>
>The change should not be noticable for now, since the openssl package
>requires the openssl097 package.  It would be nice if we could change
>the dependency in the setup.hint files to use openssl097 instead of
>openssl throughout, if you don't plan to release a new package soon.
>
>However, since the old 0.9.7 development package just disappeared in
>favor of the new 0.9.8 development package, the next release of your
>software should be 0.9.8 based.
>
>Therefore, it would be preferable, if you could upgrade your packages
>to use OpenSSL 0.9.8 so that we can get rid of the 0.9.7 compatibility
>package at one point.

Coincidentally I just built the new exim release today. 
Cygcheck shows that it uses both 0.9.8 directly as well as 0.9.7 through
cygldap-2-2-7.dll
Can I assume this should be OK (but not efficient)?

Pierre.


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