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

[Russ Allbery]

Dan White <dwhite at olp.net> writes:

> The following common packages contain dependencies on libsasl2 but
> function just fine without having any additional authentication mechs:
>
> postfix
> libldap2/ldap-utils/slapd
> mutt
> subversion
> asterisk

This is the case that I mentioned.  Those are all packages for which the
use of SASL is optional.  The SASL component is not functional for
nearly all normal uses without plugins, but there are many normal uses
of those packages where SASL isn't interesting.  Due to the way shared
libraries work, the base SASL library has to be installed, but it's
never called.

Postfix is an excellent example of the sort of package that has SASL
support and therefore needs the SASL libraries installed, but where most
installations probably don't use SASL at all.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>