[arch-dev-public] gnutls update in testing

Aaron Griffin aaronmgriffin at gmail.com
Thu Aug 7 13:22:42 EDT 2008


On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 11:08 AM, Jan de Groot <jan at jgc.homeip.net> wrote:
> GNUTLS has been updated to 2.4.1 in testing (x86_64 only at this moment,
> i686 is in progress).
>
> All known dependencies and those reported by lddd on my system have been
> rebuilt. I've added versioned dependencies to these packages to make
> them easier to identify for rebuild actions on the next major upgrade.
>
> Main changes:
> - GNUTLS binaries are GPL3 now, library is still LGPL2.1+
> - OpenCDK is no longer a dependency, the required parts are merged with
> gnutls
> - LZO2 compression is no longer supported. LZO is GPL2-only and is
> incompatible with GPL3 that way. LZO compression isn't defined as a
> standard either, it was an experimental gnutls extension
>
> Please test these packages and report any additional required rebuilds
> to the bugtracker.

I haven't noticed any issues, but I haven't tested anything major.
weechat and vlc still seem to work for me, but I haven't tested
anything like cups and the like.

For reference, 'required by' is here:
https://dev.archlinux.org/packages/testing/i686/gnutls/



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