openssl and openssh

[Brandon Allbery]

On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 19:55, Dan Ports <dports at macports.org> wrote:

> Part of the problem is that openssl 1.0.x versions are supposed to be
> binary-compatible, but this wasn't true in the past (e.g. 0.9.8 and
> 0.9.7 weren't). So the check openssh is doing is now bogus. See
> https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1991
>
>

...but was mandatory in pre-1.0 because the openssl policy completely
violated everyone's library versioning policies *and* those policies
designed into various library compatibility systems.

In short, OpenSSL's history of ignoring everyone else in its version
policies continues to bite *everyone*.  I have to wonder how they'll break
everyone else next.  (OpenSSL as a project desperately needs to be replaced
with something sane.)

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brandon s allbery                                      allbery.b at gmail.com
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