Bug#601977: cyrus-sasl2-heimdal-dbg: file conflict during upgrade from lenny

[Roberto C. Sánchez]

On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 08:03:10PM +0100, Luca Capello wrote:
> Hi there!
> 
> On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 01:29:01 +0100, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> >> > created by dh_strip, excerpted from debian/rules below:
> >> > 
> >> > dh_strip -s -psasl2-bin -plibsasl2-2 -plibsasl2-modules -plibsasl2-modules-ldap -plibsasl2-modules-otp -plibsasl2-modules-sql -plibsasl2-modules-gssapi-mit -plibsasl2-dev -Nlibsasl2-modules-gssapi-heimdal --dbg-package=cyrus-sasl2-dbg
> >> > dh_strip -s -plibsasl2-modules-gssapi-heimdal -Nsasl2-bin -Nlibsasl2-2 -Nlibsasl2-modules -Nlibsasl2-modules-ldap -Nlibsasl2-modules-otp -Nlibsasl2-modules-sql -Nlibsasl2-modules-gssapi-mit -Nlibsasl2-dev --dbg-package=cyrus-sasl2-heimdal-dbg
> >> > 
> >> > Both packages need to be able to be installed together, so my question
> >> > centers around whehter it is OK to put a diversion in place so that
> >> > cyrus-sasl2-heimdal-dbg diverts the file.  What does everyone think?
> 
> I guess that it would have helped me quite a lot to know that this bug
> had a reply and it was now ignored for quite a month, but it seems that
> the reply above was not sent to the BTS and only to the mailing list:
> 
>   http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-cyrus-sasl2-debian-devel/2010-October/001957.html
> 
> >> So, it appears that there are some other possibilities, thanks to a
> >> posting by Luca Capello [0].
> 
> Is there any reason why you did not Cc: me?  I was wondering if this bug
> was forgot, given that I did not receive any update on it (and no, going
> to the BTS or subscribing to *every* bug someone is interacting with it
> is not an acceptable solution).
> 
My apologies.  That was an oversight on my part.

> >> The first possibility is trivial, but is not as "correct."  The
> >> second is more "correct" but a larger diff.  Given that this must go
> >> into Lenny, what opinion or preference does the release team have on
> >> the matter?
> [...]
> >
> > Given the just announced deep freeze, I'd like some guidance from the
> > release team on this, so that I can prepare an update with an acceptable
> > fix to go into Squeeze.
> 
> I am not a library expert, but you cannot install both libraries
> together:
> =====
> luca at gismo:~$ apt-cache show libsasl2-modules-gssapi-mit | grep Conflicts
> Conflicts: libsasl2-modules-gssapi-heimdal
> luca at gismo:~$
> =====
> 
> So, if you want to debug the GSSAPI Heimdal library you need
> cyrus-sasl2-heimdal-dbg and, I guess, at the same time
> libsasl2-modules-gssapi-heimdal.  Given that the latter conflicts with
> the former, it seems clear that the correct approach is the second
> option I proposed.
> 
Thanks.  

Would the release team be willing to accept an upload consisting of the
patch which Luca provided to fix #601977?

Regards,

-Roberto

-- 
Roberto C. Sánchez
http://people.connexer.com/~roberto
http://www.connexer.com
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