libgnutls-openssl and real openssl conflict

[Hans de Goede]

Hi All,

The story begins here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=446860

The problem is, or I believe it to be, that when an application uses 
libgnutls-openssl (meant for easy use of porting openssl programs to gnutls) 
for example because of the openssl license issues, and then a library uses the 
real openssl (for example glibc through nss_ldap) then in the nss_ldap example, 
the layer dlopen's nss_ldap starts using the openssl symbols from gnutls 
instead of those from openssl, but they are not ABI compatible -> boom.

Luckily the list of libgnutls-openssl users seems small:

[hans at localhost src]$ repoquery -q --whatrequires 
'libgnutls-openssl.so.26()(64bit)'
mcabber-0:0.9.7-1.fc10.x86_64
gnutls-0:2.4.1-1.fc10.x86_64
gnutls-devel-0:2.4.1-1.fc10.x86_64
zoneminder-0:1.23.3-1.fc10.x86_64
gkrellm-0:2.3.1-4.fc10.x86_64

So only 3 programs are affected, given that the same may happen when any used 
library uses the real openssl and the application or any other library uses 
gnutls-openssl, I would like to suggest the removal of libgnutls-openssl from 
Fedora, as long as we have this openssl libraries mess (which we unfortunately 
do) we should make sure that the various ssl libraries do not have symbol 
clashes, as changes are that through a mix of libraries an application may be 
using 2 (or even 3) different ssl libs.

So whats your 2 cents on this?

Regards,

Hans