Why new package name libsasl2-2

Sven Mueller debian at incase.de
Sun Oct 15 17:39:35 UTC 2006


Andreas Metzler schrieb:
> thanks to you all for investing time and energy to kick sasl in shape.

I second that.

> #1 The library package name has changed from libsasl2-2 to libsasl2. I
> cannot see a reason for that, the soname is the same one as
> previously. 

I'm also wondering the same thing: Why is there a need to rename the
package? I didn't find any so far. The new library seems to work as a
drop-in-replacement for the old one AFAICT (I didn't test it on a
production system yet), but the packaging makes updates a lot more
difficult than they would need to be, especially so close before the
freeze for a new stable release.

Regards,
Sven



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