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Re: Github plugin not built in Ubuntu PPA

 

Hi Orson,

Yes I am talking about the 4.0 branch. Thanks for the explanation.

Carl

On Tue, Dec 6, 2016 at 3:36 AM, Maciej Sumiński <maciej.suminski@xxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi Carl,
>
> Do you mean PPA for the 4.0 branch? Recently I had troubles building the
> 4.0 branch with Github plugin enabled on Arch as well.
>
> Seemingly the problem is disabled SSLv3 support in Arch's OpenSSL
> package, which might be the case in Ubuntu as well. SSLv3 is used by
> avhttp to connect to Github. In the master branch, avhttp is already
> replaced with curl, which works fine.
>
> The 4.0 branch becomes tough to maintain, I do not know if backporting
> the curl patch is a simple task now.
>
> Regards,
> Orson
>
> On 12/06/2016 03:35 AM, Carl Poirier wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I just noticed the Github plugin isn't built in the Ubuntu PPA. Why is
> > that? This is confusing, you can select "Github" as plugin type in the
> > fp-lib-table, but once you ask to browse the libs, an error pops out. I
> had
> > never noticed before because I was compiling from source, but anyway this
> > is definitely something that has to be enabled!
> >
> > Carl
> >
> >
> >
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