Please support OpenSSL 1.0.2 in Trusty for NGINX PPAs

Bug #1658129 reported by Thomas Ward
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Nginx
Won't Fix
Wishlist
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Bug Description

It would be great to have HTTP/2 including ALPN in nginx 1.10.X for Ubuntu 14.04(.5) LTS. Your ppa is the only one for trusty including extra-modules like the cache_purge.

Thank you very much!

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Thomas Ward (teward) wrote :

This is not currently doable.

The problem is more than just 'supporting' OpenSSL versions, the problem lies in what versions are in the repositories. Currently, Trusty does not have OpenSSL 1.0.2, and does not have any plans to have 1.0.2 because it will likely break a large percentage of packages. Because of this, OpenSSL 1.0.2 is not going to be in the repository.

As for the PPA, to provide OpenSSL 1.0.2, we would need to backport OpenSSL 1.0.2 from Xenial, and that would ***completely replace*** any OpenSSL libraries on the system, which in turn can and would break software installed and compiled against OpenSSL 1.0.1 that are critical to the system, because it was built against those shared libraries, and not a newer version.

This is a task that is just too unwieldy to achieve within a PPA, without introducing critical problems and issues that are not resolvable.

Marking this as Won't Fix, and rejecting the question this came from because it's been converted to a bug.

affects: teward-ppas → nginx
Changed in nginx:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Won't Fix
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