Orphaning 'nss_compat_ossl'

[Ken Dreyer]

Thanks Florian and Kamil.

I've updated the wiki page
(https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Nss_compat_ossl ) to warn developers
that this library should not be used.

- Ken

On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 1:21 AM, Kamil Dudka <kdudka at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, April 30, 2015 10:27:50 Ken Dreyer wrote:
>> A day or two ago Ceph upstream was just discussing using this library
>> to support for HTTPS support in its embedded Civetweb server.
>> nss-compat-ossl is not in Debian/Ubuntu, but we could try to make that
>> happen... this announcement catches me by surprise. Is this library
>> essentially dead upstream? Were there issues getting other projects to
>> use it?
>>
>> - Ken
>
> Yes, the package has been dead both upstream and downstream for a couple of
> years already.  There are some difficult to fix critical bugs that nobody is
> going to look at.  You can take the following one as an example:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/910815
>
> Kamil
>
>> On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 4:33 PM, Matthew Harmsen <mharmsen at redhat.com>
> wrote:
>> > Everyone,
>> >
>> > As we believe that the only project that may have been using
>> > 'nss_compat_ossl' was the 'elinks' project, and they are abandoning its
>> > use
>> > (see elinks-0.12-0.44.pre6.fc23), I am announcing that I am orphaning the
>> > 'nss_compat_ossl' package effective immediately in 'rawhide'.
>> >
>> > -- Matt
>> >
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