Re: "openssl" should not be optional

> On 24 Sep 2025, at 13:37, Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org> wrote:
>
> Re: Daniel Gustafsson
>> It seems a bit restrictive to require the openssl binary which is test-only,
>> since we allow building with ssl but without TAP support (which is where the
>> openssl binary is used).
>
> Ok, but then the error messages should be better. This was found
> because a fellow Debian developer was smart enough to spot the extra
> space in that " x509" error message... (And another one knew about
> this difference between the different build environments.)

If we make it optional and skip the relevant tests then there wouldn't be any
errors messages?  I do agree that all messaging around should be very clear
though, so it's obvious why tests were skipped.

Do you feel like expanding your patch or should I?

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Daniel Gustafsson