Re: [gentoo-dev] [News review] LibreSSL support discontinued

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

On Sun, 2021-01-03 at 21:47 +0100, Michał Górny wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Please review the news item inlined below.  This is based on what
> I discussed with blueness (LibreSSL team lead).  The news item is kinda
> long-ish because I wanted to include the full rationale since I believe
> our users will find it desirable to know it.
> 
> If it's ok, I'd like to push it soonish.  This will give people around
> 4 weeks to prepare and/or migrate their systems manually before being
> hit by the masks.  Afterwards, we'll mask libressl with a prolonged
> removal date.  I'm thinking of 3 months since I suspect that our
> packages will start strongly requiring OpenSSL by then.
> 
> I'm mentioning the LibreSSL overlay since one of our users is
> interested in maintaining it.  It will probably be the best alternative
> for users who want to continue fighting the lost cause without causing
> major problems for Gentoo mainline.

Thank you all for feedback.  I've just pushed the last version.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny