[bug#29476] [PATCH] gnu: libressl: Update to 2.6.3.

[Leo Famulari]

On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 02:21:10PM -0500, Leo Famulari wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 08:04:21PM +0100, Rutger Helling wrote:
> > Here's an update for LibreSSL.
> 
> > From 0319e59618578864faf6ac1402bb02eca9e6adb7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Rutger Helling <address@hidden>
> > Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2017 19:57:53 +0100
> > Subject: [PATCH] gnu: libressl: Update to 2.6.3.
> > 
> > * gnu/packages/tls.scm (libressl): Update to 2.6.3.
> 
> Thanks for paying attention to this!
> 
> I tried this update recently and found that OpenSSH is not yet
> compatible with the 2.6 series of LibreSSL.

I remembered incorrectly!

The issue I had is that Python 3.5.3 is not compatible with LibreSSL
2.6, but only 2.5; I use an OpenSSH with a LibreSSL-only dependency
graph.

OpenSSH itself builds fine with LibreSSL 2.6, although it does not
support OpenSSL 1.1. It's likely that once OpenSSL 1.0.2 is retired, the
portable OpenSSH will require LibreSSL, unless someone contributes
support for the new OpenSSL API to OpenSSH.

Well, we don't claim to support replacing OpenSSL with LibreSSL, and
Python is not developed against LibreSSL, so I guess there is no good
reason to delay this update.

Thoughts? I'll push if there are no objections.

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