[gentoo-dev] Re: Current status with openssl-1.1

[Martin Vaeth <martin@mvath.de>]

Lars Wendler <polynomial-c@gentoo.org> wrote:
> So, basically openssl is the last big showstopper for openssl-1.1 to
> get out of p.mask.

s/openssl/openssh/

Another showstopper is net-libs/wvstreams, hence net-dialup/wvdial.
BTW, this is a Debian bug open without any comment since April 2017:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=859791
Debians and Archs workarounds can be called slotting of openssl:1.0
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=828603

While many of the new opaqueness problems are easy to fix,
some functions of wvstreams rely so much on internals which are
inaccessible with openssl-1.1 that they seem impossible to convert.
My guess (I am not an openssl guru) is that the whole wvstreams
implementation would need to change, maybe also the provided API with
some functionality being dropped or attacked completely differently.
The uncommented bugreports and missing PRs suggest that this will
never happen by upstream, and there also seems to be no fork with it.

Maybe for wvstreams a workaround might be to mask/remove USE=ssl:
Perhaps wvdial would then loose some functionality (does anybody
know what would break?) but given how useful wvdial is, this is
better than dropping it completely.