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Re: Bug#325643: libcurl and moc

From: Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se>
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 22:22:18 +0200 (CEST)

On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:

> I bounced this message to debian-devel to force a solution with the
> curl ssl/gnutlds diverties.

...

> My resume on Daniels point of view is to get a different .so name for gnutls
> in the very short term and kick off ssl in Debian apps midterm!

That is actually not really what I suggest. See below.

> Note, this will _not be done upstream_! This is not as hard as Marco's
> demand, but we have to do it in that way. There are some curl based packages
> like oggvorbistools, moc etc which are at the moment uninstallable and
> herewith I invite Domenico to provide a package where gnutls and ssl can
> exist beside in one installation.

It _might_ be done upstream but this is not a high priority to us.

I've tried to summarize the background, the problem and a suggested way to fix
this here:

         http://curl.haxx.se/legal/distro-dilemma.html

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Received on 2005-09-01