Bug#532556: cyrus-sasl2: "you must install some of the modules" -> Depends

[Steve Langasek]

On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 09:09:34PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Steve Langasek <steve.langasek at canonical.com> writes:

> > If you disagree that this is the right thing to do, perhaps you can
> > indicate why so that we can remove this delta from the Ubuntu package
> > as well?

> I'm not sure if this is a good reason for the current behavior, but it
> does allow one to install the SASL library without the modules if one is
> installing some package that optionally supports SASL but one doesn't
> intend to use SASL.  This is not uncommon.

If that's the consensus of the Debian maintainers, I'm happy to drop this
back down to a Recommends (especially now that Recommends are installed by
default, which they weren't when this change was first made in Ubuntu).  I
think the logical package relationship would still be to recommend ORed
alternatives, instead of recommending just libsasl2-modules. 

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