2009/6/23 Jan Janak jan@iptel.org:
If I understand it correctly, we are talking here about Debian control files that are being kept in the git repository, right? But aren't those files intended for people who want to build Debian packages themselves, rather than for official Debian developers? As far as I know official Debian developers maintain their control files elsewhere, and in fact it is recommended that upstream projects do not provide their own control files.
I was thinking exactly the same. The debian files in SR repository are intended to build DEB packages, nothing related to Debian official repositories.
If Debian wants to provide official SR packages, them they could choose to use the GnuTLs version instead (by creating their own "control" file).
If this is the case, does it really matter if we keep libcurl4-openssl-dev in our control files? We know that all the stuff should work (at least was developed with) with openssl, so shouldn't this be the default for the people who attempt to build the packages themselves?
100% agree.