bug#34717: GPL and Openssl incompatibilities in u-boot and possibly others

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Vagrant Cascadian <address@hidden> skribis:

> I've tested that the attached patch builds all u-boot-* targets on
> x86_64 (cross-building most of them), with openssl removed from
> native-inputs.
>
> Unfortunately, u-boot-tools fails it's tests on aarch64 and armhf, but
> that appears to be the case with or without this patch, so it's no worse
> off than it was...

This can be fixed separately then.

> I'm not sure where it would be appropriate to add more comments
> regarding the GPL/Openssl incompatibilities; e.g. if someone were to
> propose adding one of the u-boot targets that requires it, they might
> just go ahead and re-add the openssl input...

There’s always a risk.  I guess we’ll have to be careful when doing
reviews.

In addition, we can add a ‘lint’ checker for this case, WDYT?

> From ee613387c49ca60905e0a40af8af017828c8aec8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Vagrant Cascadian <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2019 21:50:58 +0000
> Subject: [PATCH] gnu: u-boot: Remove openssl input.
>
> Fixes: https://bugs.gnu.org/34717
>
> * gnu/packages/bootloaders (u-boot): Remove openssl from native-inputs.
>   (u-boot-tools): Disable FIT_SIGNATURES in tests.

Applied, thanks!

Ludo’.