bug#22876: Python can't use https with recent grafts

[Ludovic Courtès]

Jookia <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Tue, Mar 01, 2016 at 04:13:41PM -0800, Christopher Allan Webber wrote:
>> This leads to my suspicion that it's not really grafting's fault here,
>> it's the *removal* of a piece of code, thus making things
>> abi-incompatible with the system we built.  Hopefully most grafting
>> situations won't require this.  I think that's right? :)
>
> At least we know grafting works now. :)

Yay, we can experience ABI breaks like a real distro now!  :-)

>> Unfortunately, I'd say that ssl and python isn't really optional!
>> Is it possible to graft on top of a graft?  Could we rebuild Python
>> based on the grafted openssl, and then graft things on top of the
>> grafted Python? :)
>
> I'm super curious now, are grafts composable? What if we need to graft 
> multiple
> packages for whatever reason (static linking comes to mind.)

It’s supposed to Just Work!  That is, any number of packages can have a
‘replacement’ field, and the resulting grafts will be applied as needed.

Ludo’.