[Pkg-gnutls-maint] gnutls26

[Andreas Metzler]

Hello,

I would like to upload gnutls26 to unstable sometime soonish. This is
a soname bump from gnutls13.

The API has also changed a little bit, but the only package in
Debian/main build-depending on (and correctly building with)
gnutls13[1] but not with gnutls26 is wwwoffle.  (#450852: patch in
bts). Because of this I am intending to keep the libgnutls-dev package
name.

There is also a license change, libgnutls-extra (including the openssl
wrapper) has gone from GPLv2+ to GPLv3+. I have checked *directly*
linking packages for license incompabilities. libgnutls-extra is rarely
used and most of the users are GPLv2+ themselves. These packages will
break however:

* lynx and lynx-cur (Forwarded upstream
  http://news.gmane.org/find-root.php?message_id=%3cf7a755%2d7ch.ln1%40argenau.downhill.at.eu.org%3e )
* ssmtp #456442
* freewheeling #456433 (already forwarded upstream)

Any thoughts on the timing? Would it perhaps be helpful if I uploaded
a gnutls26 without libgnutls-dev (i.e. just library, -guile, -dbg and
-bin) to unstable and wait until it is has gone to testing before
really starting the transition?

thanks, cu andreas

[1] There is a a single-digit number of packages FTBFSing because of
(reported) bugs or unfinished transitions.
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