Dear Miro,

On Wed, Jun 29, 2022 at 5:27 PM Miro Hrončok <mhroncok@redhat.com> wrote:

On 29. 06. 22 17:11, Dmitry Belyavskiy wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
>
> If I correctly follow the discussion, the biggest show-stopper is Python 2.*,
> which has some incomplete patches to deal with OpenSSL 3.0.

We would also need it in for Python 3.6 and pypys.

Are RHEL 9 patches for Python 3 series relevant in this case?

> If we assist you in moving these patches forward, can we get rid of the devel
> package and leave the compat package only for 3rd-party packages?

Please don't remove the devel package if you aim for deprecation. As other have
said, removing the devel package is essentially retirement, not deprecation.

OK, it's not a problem to deprecate the package in the sense of https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/deprecating-packages/

But we still want to get rid of it.

> I don't think that the community really requires support for this package for 7
> years after its upstream sunset.

OpenSSL 3 was introduced in Fedora 36, that has *just* been released this year.
This is a change proposal for Fedora 37, that is half a year after, not 7 years :/

Well, speaking about 7 years, I mean the idea to support the compat package synchronously with RHEL 8.

I'd like to retire this package not later than, well, a release after OpenSSL 1.1.1 EOL.

Dmitry Belyavskiy