[Pkg-bitcoin-devel] Bug#775102: bitcoin: OpenSSL 1.0.1k incompatibility with Bitcoin Core

[Micha]

Package: bitcoin
Version: 0.9.3-1
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable

Dear Maintainer,

OpenSSL version 1.0.1k made signature validation more strict, which breaks validation of the Bitcoin blockchain.
See http://sourceforge.net/p/bitcoin/mailman/message/33221963/ for more detailed information.

There is a patch available to work around this issue. However, for various reasons, there are several possible courses of action that may be taken.
One would be to release a new version of the package with this patch, but that may not necessarily be the best thing to do.

See discussion on IRC (#bitcoin-dev on freenode) for more information on some of the alternatives: http://bitcoinstats.com/irc/bitcoin-dev/logs/2015/01/11#l1420968793

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers trusty-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'trusty-updates'), (500, 'trusty-security'), (500, 'trusty'), (100, 'trusty-backports')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 3.13.0-43-generic (SMP w/3 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash