Call for testers: cyrus-sasl2

[Jan Wagner]

On Tuesday 28 November 2006 12:22, Fabian Fagerholm wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 11:05 +0100, Jan Wagner wrote:
> > On Tuesday 28 November 2006 07:53, Fabian Fagerholm wrote:
> > > This new package is a major change compared to the old version.
> > > Therefore, we want people to test it as much as possible!
> >
> > can you explain short, what are the changes?
>
> Sure. Some of the most important changes since 2.1.19 (which is in sarge
> and etch at the moment) -- this includes both upstream and packaging
> changes -- are:
>
>       * LDAP auxprop support -- no need to run saslauthd to authenticate
>         against an LDAP directory.
>       * Rewrite of Kerberos / GSSAPI plugins -- plus build against MIT
>         Kerberos instead of Heimdal.
>       * Separate configuration file and plugin directories -- no more
>         "secret conf files in /usr/lib/sasl2" (this change is what broke
>         Postfix).
>       * Security fixes included (sarge has them backported via security
>         updates).
>       * Debug packages and testing tools provided.
>
> Plus, more than two years worth of bug fixes and small improvements
> upstream, a complete rewrite of the Debian packaging using dpatch,
> collaborative maintenance via Alioth, ...

Hi there,

is there any good reason to depend on libdb4.2-dev (>= 4.2.52-24)? I'm trying 
to backport the package to sarge (where is only 4.2.52-18 available).

Thanks and with kind regards, Jan.
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