Transition of packages from system-openssl-dev

Dear Fink Developer,

As you may be aware, OS X 10.11 does not provide a full install of OpenSSL
in /usr (it only has the dylib, but not the headers). Therefore, the
package system-openssl-dev is no longer available on 10.11.  To fill this
dependency gap, packages must transition to a Fink package that provides
SSL functionality (like openssl100 or gnutls28). I've added a list of all
packages that are currently using system-openssl-dev in the 10.9-libcxx
tree to the Fink wiki:

http://wiki.finkproject.org/index.php/Fink:Policy:system-openssl#Deprecation_of_system-openssl-dev

Because the (L)GPL and OpenSSL licenses are incompatible, any package that
is switched to use openssl100-shlibs must change its License field.  The
current (as of fink-0.39.1) policy is to use "Restrictive".  However,
there is code in the Fink pipeline that will allow the new license strings
"GPL/OpenSSL" and "LGPL/OpenSSL" to better identify those packages. Once
that code is released, (L)GPL packages linking to OpenSSL can use the
relevant entry.

If your package is not licensed under a (L)GPL license, you do not need to
change the License: field.  However, the package must still be updated to
no longer use system-openssl-dev on at least 10.11.

Lastly, packages linking to a cryptography library do not need to be moved
to the crypto directory in CVS.  Crypto is reserved for those packages
that actually implement cryptography.

Hanspeter

-- 
More agile than a turtle, stronger than a mouse, nobler than a lettuce.


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