New cyrus-sasl2 packages

[Roberto C. Sanchez]

On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 01:27:24PM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
> 
> > You bring up a good point.  However, I'd like to point out that the fact
> > that a feature is disabled in SASL (namely LDAP support)
> 
>  Was that done with a library version change?  Because this sounds like
> a highly incompatible change to me.  Is this disabling discussed with
> upstream and do they know that you need to change the libarary
> versioning?
> 
This is temporary because an openldap transition is required to take
place with the cyrus-sasl transition.

> > and ends up cause *unrelated* breakage in etpan-ng and libetpan, means
> > that there is in fact some sort of latent bug in those packages.
> 
>  Are you sure that it is indeed unrelated?  From what I've read on some
> archive is that it was forgotten to add versioned symbols _at all_ in
> sasl.  Did you try your test builds with those, or not?
> 
The versioned symbols were in fact not added, as you point out.  That
was a mistake on my part.  Fabian had committed a patch which was
supposed to add versioned symbols, but apparently there is some libtool
magic which goes along with that which has not yet been implemented.

> > If you like, you are free to lower the severity of the bugs.
> 
>  As you can see, it is closed already by the release team, because it's
> neither a bug within the Debian system, nor does it seem to be a bug
> with a considering stable package (you said yourself that you still are
> working on it), nor am I at all convinced that the problem lies within
> etpan-ng.
> 

Yes.  Again, that was my mistake and I apolgize.

> > However, the fact that there exists a not-so-exotic circumstance under
> > which those packages fail to build means that furher investigation
> > should conducted.
> 
>  Feel free, but still I don't think it's in the etpan code, sorry.  Is
> etpan-ng the only package which seemingly has problems with those
> changes?  From what I've read I doubt that - so it is quite an
> interesting approach to seek the reason for the breakage in other places
> than the library itself.  If it's changed in an incompatible way it
> should be tagged as such.  Are you sure you only disabled the ldap
> support and changed nothing else?
> 
One last apology :-)

Regards,

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sanchez
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