Please do not ship liboqs in stable releases
Bug #1954379 reported by
Andrius Merkys
This bug affects 2 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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liboqs (Debian) |
New
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Unknown
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liboqs (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
The authors of liboqs have explicitly asked to withhold distribution of liboqs binary packages until the NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography standardization project reaches its conclusion. Please block liboqs binary packages from being shipped with stable Ubuntu releases.
I am the maintainer of liboqs in Debian, and there I have blocked the source package from migrating to testing branch (https:/
Changed in liboqs (Debian): | |
status: | Unknown → New |
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Thanks for reporting.
I've taken the liberty of subscribing the Archive Admins to take a look at this. They can remove the package from upcoming release, and I believe there is a magical tag to keep new versions from migrating from proposed.