From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 93C681382C5 for ; Tue, 5 Jan 2021 11:18:03 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 91CACE0849; Tue, 5 Jan 2021 11:18:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (dev.gentoo.org [IPv6:2001:470:ea4a:1:5054:ff:fec7:86e4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 57018E0837 for ; Tue, 5 Jan 2021 11:18:00 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <6f310538dac68130bc267723c513b754e26b2d53.camel@gentoo.org> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [News review] LibreSSL support discontinued From: =?UTF-8?Q?Micha=C5=82_G=C3=B3rny?= To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2021 12:17:55 +0100 In-Reply-To: <78a7442c39dd552b0b13353db491c44d04945d51.camel@gentoo.org> References: <78a7442c39dd552b0b13353db491c44d04945d51.camel@gentoo.org> Organization: Gentoo Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" User-Agent: Evolution 3.38.2 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 530f8af8-e420-4ef6-acaf-48958ba0d701 X-Archives-Hash: cad5ec1c1f9f25cf0514afa57fa41bec 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. -- Best regards, Michał Górny