Bug#401716: sasl2-bin: non-existent THREADS env variable not handled gracefully

[John Bäckstrand]

Package: sasl2-bin
Version: 2.1.22.dfsg1-5
Severity: normal

While upgrading sasl2-bin, /etc/init.d/saslauthd started failing at starting the executable. The reason is that the THREADS variable, 
that can be specified in /etc/defaults/saslauthd, is required. If you, like me, keep youre old configuration files while upgrading the 
saslauthd-initscript should really handle when this variable is not specified. I cant imagine that it is a required configuration 
option, and if so the initscript should set a sensible default?



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17.8
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US)

Versions of packages sasl2-bin depends on:
ii  libc6    2.3.6.ds1-8                     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libcomer 1.39+1.40-WIP-2006.11.14+dfsg-1 common error description library
ii  libdb4.2 4.2.52+dfsg-1                   Berkeley v4.2 Database Libraries [
ii  libkrb53 1.4.4-4                         MIT Kerberos runtime libraries
ii  libldap2 2.1.30-13+b1                    OpenLDAP libraries
ii  libpam0g 0.79-4                          Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  libsasl2 2.1.22.dfsg1-5                  Authentication abstraction library
ii  libssl0. 0.9.8c-4                        SSL shared libraries
ii  lsb-base 3.1-22                          Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip

sasl2-bin recommends no packages.

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