Bug 569796

Summary:	app-text/acroread uses dev-libs/openssl:0.9.8
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Agostino Sarubbo <ago>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Printing Team <printing>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	normal	CC:	holger, Oliver, pacho
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	PMASKED
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	569792

Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2015-12-26 12:13:25 UTC

We are trying to reduce the stable keywords or eventually drop the 0.9.8 slot.

This package specifies :0.9.8

I'm wondering if there is a version which works with openssl:0 or there is another way to avoid to keep 0.9.8.
Thanks

Comment 1 Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev

2015-12-26 13:25:16 UTC

After investigations seems abandoned upstream. Latest release was in 2013.

You can think about mask and removal.

Comment 2 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2016-03-04 12:08:32 UTC

I am opposed to lastrite this as I still need this from time to time for some pdf files (usually those involving to fill things inside them that are still failing in some cases with free alternatives)

I also wonder how ArchLinux people are able to package this without openssl:0.9.8 :/

https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=acroread

Comment 3 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2016-03-04 13:53:24 UTC

Umm, it looks to work with the ugly workaround of symlinking libssl and libcrypto from :0 slot as 0.9.8 :/

Comment 4 Holger Hoffstätte 2016-03-06 12:15:02 UTC

(In reply to Pacho Ramos from comment #3)
> Umm, it looks to work with the ugly workaround of symlinking libssl and
> libcrypto from :0 slot as 0.9.8 :/

Can confirm that this works for me as well with 1.0.2g-r2 (was worried for a second there - I *need* acroread.)

It's probably best not to overthink this; there's a good chance that the dependency is purely accidental and that whoever linked this thing together had no real idea what they were doing. Acroread also contains parts of an old zlib while at the same time linking against zlib. Really, don't ask.

Comment 5 Micha 2017-02-15 21:06:06 UTC

Currently 0.9.8z is latest for 0.9.8 in Gentoo. Latest version of OpenSSL is however 0.9.8zh. Can that be upgraded? Or an alternate dependency on that mentioned ugly workaround?

Comment 6 Andreas K. Hüttel archtester

2017-02-19 22:35:23 UTC

I've taken the liberty to hard-mask Acrobat Reader. It's a security nightmare.

Comment 7 Pacho Ramos gentoo-dev

2017-07-14 11:06:49 UTC

removed