[Buildroot] [PATCH v4 1/2] libopenssl: bump version to 1.1.1a

[Arnout Vandecappelle]

On 23/01/2019 17:15, Peter Korsgaard wrote:
>>>>>> "Arnout" == Arnout Vandecappelle <arnout at mind.be> writes:
> 
> Hi,
> 
>  >> >  I do hope that it could still go into 2019.02.
>  >> 
>  >> If that is our goal, then we might as well merge it ASAP to get more
>  >> test coverage?
>  >> 
>  >> What is the killer feature why we need openssl-1.1.x in 2019.02.x? TLS
>  >> 1.3 or just that 1.0.2 goes EOL at the end of the year?
> 
>  >  Both, I guess. Also that the whole known world (including Debian stable,
>  > released June 2017) has already switched to 1.1.x.
> 
> With 1.1.x I take it you mean 1.1.0, right? The 1.1.1 series (strange
> numbering convention) was only released back in September.

 With 1.1.x I mean 1.1.0 or 1.1.1. The breakage comes from the 1.1.0 bump; .0 to
.1 is fairly smooth.


 Regards,
 Arnout

> 1.1.0 is not a LTS so not suitable for 2019.02.x. 1.0.2 is supported
> until the end of 2019, so that is IMHO still OK for 2019.02.
> 
> I agree that having 1.1.1x in 2019.02.x would be nice, but a pity that
> quite some packages break with it (even if the whole known world has
> switched to it).
>