Results of archive rebuild against OpenSSL3

[Dan Streetman]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2021 at 4:09 AM Simon Chopin <simon.chopin at canonical.com> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> As some of you may be aware, the OpenSSL project is working towards a
> major OpenSSL 3.0 version, which will not be ABI compatible with
> the current 1.1 branch[0]. They have recently released a first Release
> Candidate version[1], and in order to prepare for a stable release, I've
> uploaded a version of this release candidate on a PPA, based on the
> Debian Experimental version[2].
>
> I have also uploaded to this PPA all packages currently in impish that
> have a direct reverse-dependency on libssl-dev, to assess the amount of
> breakage such a transition would bring. You'll find the result at [3],
> but please bear in mind that it is a really rough experiment, so it's
> likely that I've missed some dependencies, or that some build failures
> aren't related to OpenSSL at all.
>
> Note that there aren't any concrete plans for OpenSSL3 in Ubuntu *yet*,
> so don't panic. This work has been done in order to assess the amount of
> work involved in such migration.

So, is this planned for the 22.04 release?

Back in 18.04, there was a similar abi-breaking change between 1.0 and
1.1, and the resulting conflict between the libssl-dev and
libssl1.0-dev packages was quite painful to many people and never
actually resolved:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openssl1.0/+bug/1794589

I would hate to see that happen again in 22.04.

>
> Also, since the rebuild has been done in a PPA, I had to tweak the
> report script quite a bit, so some of its features might not have been
> working properly.
>
> Cheers,
> Simon
>
> [0]: https://wiki.openssl.org/index.php/OpenSSL_3.0
> [1]: https://www.openssl.org/blog/blog/2021/06/17/OpenSSL3.0ReleaseCandidate/
> [2]: https://launchpad.net/~schopin/+archive/ubuntu/openssl3/+sourcepub/12547808/+listing-archive-extra
> [3]: https://people.canonical.com/~schopin/rebuilds/openssl3-impish.html
>
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