Subject: Re: bug#11205: 24.0.95; starttls-use-gnutls no longer being honored

From: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2012 21:05:09 -0400

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]> writes:

> [email-masked] writes:
>
>> Can you explain to me why should a user now jump through more hoops
>> to use another program such as OpenSSL, in order to use TLS?
>
> `starttls-use-gnutls' controls what starttls.el does when starttls.el is
> being used.  starttls.el is not being used, by default, any more.  So
> this isn't a regression.

The regression is that you can't prevent GnuTLS from being used
and use OpenSSL if GnuTLS us installed.

OK, I'll open up another bug report and not mention
`starttls-use-gnutls' so that this can be fixed.