Dmitry Baryshkov dbaryshkov@gmail.com writes:
GnuTLS project would like to ask you to bump libhogweed soname as a way to enforce recompilation because of the ecc-internal.h usage.
I guess that makes sense. It will inconvenience all other packages which don't access internals and which could benefit from ABI compatibility and unchanged soname, though.
But for this release, the changes are mainly new features and a bug fix for cfb8_decrypt. And, e.g., no major optimizations of existing functions. So probably fairly harmless to force recompile to be able to use a new version.
Any other opinions?
That said, I would wish a default gnutls build did *not* use internal functions, and had a configure option to enable use of internals, for users and packagers who understand the consequences. That would be analogous to the --enable-gmp-internals configure argument for MPFR.
Other than that it would be nice to get GOST VKO key derivation algorithm to supplement GOST digital signatures algorithm.
I don't want to delay the release for that. Ok?
Regards, /Niels