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libasr is unmaintained upstream

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From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>
To: Omar Polo <op <at> omarpolo.com>
Cc: 64271 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 64271-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#64271: libasr is unmaintained upstream
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2023 19:17:13 +0200

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Omar Polo 写道：
> I'm not a guix user so can't send patches, hope this is the 
> correct
> way to report issues however.

Yep.

> The upstream libasr-portable repository was archived, as the 
> project
> was unmaintained (and unmaintenable in some sense) for some 
> time:
>
> 	https://github.com/OpenSMTPD/libasr/
>
> OpenSMTPD (its only consumer I guess) doesn't depend on it 
> anymore, it
> should be built with the bundled version that was updated.

Removed libasr in commit 902a48e0d3ce4a1983a6d3f71472639a8e59c48f.

> P.S.: looking at the recipe for OpenSMTPD I noticed the comment
>       "reccomended, and supports e.g. ECDSA".  While it's true 
>       that
>       it's reccomended to build with LibreSSL, ec keys should 
>       work
>       just as fine with OpenSSL.  The only issue is the combo 
>       OpenSSL
>       3.x + LibreTLS 3.7.0 due to a known regression that will 
>       be
>       fixed in a upcoming release (I hope) since LibreSSL' tls 
>       did it:
>       https://github.com/libressl/openbsd/commit/318ad8e73e

OpenSMTPd temporarily(…) builds with openssl with commit 
023ff651462f70004c7a92b19fd072ee3138e5a2, so the comment is gone.

Thanks!

T G-R

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