not able to install FR 3.0.16+git in (pure) Debian 9

[Alan DeKok]

On Aug 10, 2017, at 6:27 PM, Rui Ribeiro <ruyrybeyro at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I have been compiling and deploying FR source for a good while in Debian 9;
> however upon trying to install it in a cleanly installed system, I just
> found out I cant.
> 
> The difference is that my production system (still) has a dangling libssl
> version from Debian 8 backports, that was installed *before* the upgrade to
> Debian 9.

  That shouldn't make much difference...

> However, in a pure Debian 9 system, I see this error when trying to install
> FR 3.0.16 git from my internal repository:
> 
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> 
> freeradius : Depends: libssl1.0.0 (>= 1.0.1) but it is not installable
> 
> The only thing that I change to compile it is in
> 
> debian/control:10: libjson0 | libjson-c2,
> 
> 
> Changing libjson-c2 to libjson-c3.

  Ah... the "DLL hell" problem.  Different packages have different dependencies.  And those dependencies can conflict...

> I would like to ask for a change for installing it in Debian 9; it has been
> running well, however I do not have the necessary background to propose a
> *proper quality* patch.

  We'll take a look thanks.

  Alan DeKok.