Subject: Re: new openssl (OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED)
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@astron.com>
List: current-users
Date: 11/27/2005 01:50:29
In article <slrndoi3lb.cua.mason@g.primenet.com.au>,
Geoff Wing  <mason@primenet.com.au> wrote:
>Heyla,
>is it deliberate that OPENSSL_NO_DEPRECATED is defined for the new openssl?
>So we don't get a (major) version with both old and new functions and thus
>we are expected to fix 3rd party products?
>e.g. change DH_generate_parameters() calls to use DH_generate_parameters_ex()
>
>This seems a bit strange to me unless the deprecated functions had major
>security problems/deficiencies.
>
>I came across a few of these rebuilding all my pkgsrc and some were failing
>to build, e.g. news/inn, security/ssldump

Can you send me a list of the link errors?

christos