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2009-04-05 UPDATE: Since Monkeysphere no longer depends on GnuTLS
at all (moved to using Perl for key
translation), and GnuTLS 2.6 is now available in
Debian testing, we have removed the GnuTLS patches from the repostiory
(although they will continue to be available in the history, or
course).

We announced earlier that the
Monkeysphere project was providing patched versions of GnuTLS to
support one piece of Monkeysphere functionality.  Fortunately, those
patches are no longer needed, because as of version
2.6,
GnuTLS contains the necessary functionality natively.
Therefore, our project will no longer provide patched copies of
GnuTLS, though we will continue to keep the patch alive in in our git
repository until GnuTLS 2.6 has been more widely adopted.
If you were pulling patched versions of GnuTLS 2.4 from the
Monkeysphere archive, you may prefer to pull GnuTLS 2.6 from debian's
experimental archive (at
least until it GnuTLS 2.6 drops into unstable, which should happen
shortly after the release of
lenny.