Socat PPA (readline)

.gitignore

socat*

enable-readline.patch

diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
old mode 100755
new mode 100644
index 5c58737..bc03c62
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -4,6 +4,6 @@
 	dh $@

 override_dh_auto_configure:
-	dh_auto_configure -- --disable-readline
+	dh_auto_configure -- --disable-openssl

 override_dh_auto_test:
diff --git a/debian/patches/fix-include b/debian/patches/fix-include
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..96c7412
--- /dev/null
+++ b/debian/patches/fix-include
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+Fix missing include.
+
+--- a/nestlex.c	2016-05-17 17:10:01.200441730 +0300
++++ b/nestlex.c	2016-05-17 17:10:47.512404942 +0300
+@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
+ /* a function for lexical scanning of nested character patterns */
+
+ #include "config.h"
++#include <stddef.h>
+ #include "mytypes.h"
+
+ #include "sysincludes.h"

update-ppa.sh

#!/bin/bash -eux

if ! which gpg-agent; then
    sudo apt-get install gnupg-agent
fi
if ! which pull-lp-source; then
    sudo apt-get install ubuntu-dev-tools
fi
if ! which /dh_autoreconf; then
    sudo apt-get install dh-autoreconf
fi
gpg-agent || eval `gpg-agent --daemon`
echo ==============================
echo        making packages
echo ==============================

for dist in trusty xenial; do
    rm -rf socat*
    pull-lp-source socat $dist
    (
        cd socat*
        dch --force-distribution -D $dist -l"ionelmc1~ppa" "Enable readline. Disable openssl."
        patch -lp1 < ../enable-readline.patch
        sed -i 's/libssl-dev/libreadline6-dev/' debian/control
        sed -i 's/^Depends: /Depends: libreadline6,/' debian/control
        echo fix-include >> debian/patches/series
        debuild -S -sd
    )
    dput -f ppa:ionel-mc/socat *.changes
done

If you need readline with OpenSSL you can use the "standard" socat and something like following recipe:

rlwrap -- socat - openssl:example.com:443,capath=/etc/ssl/certs

Note for those who do not know:

The licences of OpenSSL and GNU-readline are incompatible. So socat can only be distributed either with OpenSSL compiled in or GNU-readline compiled in, but not both. As socat is mainly a networking tool distributions usually add OpenSSL and leave GNU-readline out.