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

[Adam D. Barratt]

On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 20:46 -0500, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 08:03:10PM +0100, Luca Capello wrote:
> > 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?

I'm (predictably) not overly keen on adding new packages at this stage,
but it does seem to be the "obviously correct" solution in this case.
Assuming that the upgrade paths using the new package (lenny to squeeze
+ new package and squeeze to squeeze + new package) have been tested,
please go ahead.

Regards,

Adam