[Pkg-iscsi-maintainers] open-iscsi vs. open-isns vs. openssl licensing issues

[Christian Seiler]

Good Morning,

Thanks for your quick response. :)

On 07/26/2016 10:53 AM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-07-25 at 21:08 +0200, Christian Seiler wrote:
>> I was just working on updating open-iscsi to the newest upstream git
>> snapshot. During an initial test build, lintian gave me
> 
> Thanks. This will be good because I just noticed that Mike has cleaned-up isns
> from open-iscsi repo.

Yes, that's kind of why I packaged open-isns in the first place. ;-)

>> From what I can tell, the simplest solution would probably be:
> 
>>  - update open-isns to create a new library libisns-nocrypto.so.0
>>    that doesn't link against -lcrypto
>>    (there's a configure flag in open-isns to build that, so one
>>    could easily build the library twice when building open-isns,
>>    once regularily with -lcrypto, once without; I'd simply put it
>>    in the same package libisns0 for simplicity)
> 
>>  - locally patch open-iscsi to build against -lisns-nocrypto
>>    instead of -lisns -lcrypto
> 
>> Before I go and do that I'd like to ask you if you agree with
>> that solution? (While the change itself is not complicated, it
>> is not just some packaging change or some porting fix that I'd
>> simply do without asking, but rather some more fundamental change
>> I'd like a second opinion on.)
> 
> 
> This is good. In the past we had disabled ssl in isns, when it was in the open-
> iscsi repo. But this is a much cleaner approach.

Ah good. I'll upload a new open-isns version (0.96-3) with
this change soon, and after that continue with my work on
open-iscsi. (I'll post the open-iscsi stuff for review later.)

Regards,
Christian

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