Bug#739601: Some programms complain about missing /usr/lib/sasl2 after update

[Roberto C. Sánchez]

severity 739601 normal
retitle 739601 mutt: Fails ungracefully when /usr/lib/sasl2 is not present
reassign 739601 mutt
thanks

The directory /usr/lib/sasl2 was shipped for along time as an empty
directory in the libsasl2-2 directory.  This was removed for two
reasons:

 - It was empty, and therefore not useful
 - With multi-arch, all the libsasl2-modules-* binary packages are
   shipping their files in /usr/lib/<arch>/sasl2

It appears that this is causing mutt to fail ungracefully.  The
existence of the directory should be tested for.

Regards,

-Roberto

On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 12:22:08PM +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote:
> Package: libsasl2-modules
> Version: 2.1.26.dfsg1-8
> Severity: critical
> 
> I set the severity to critical as unrelated software is affekted.
> 
> After updating libsasl2-modules, I have the following log messages in
> log:
> 
>    mutt: looking for plugins in '/usr/lib/sasl2', failed to open directory, error: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
> 
> I have no idea why this directory was removed but other software seems
> to need it.
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: jessie/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (800, 'unstable'), (600, 'oldstable'), (110, 'experimental')
> Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
> Foreign Architectures: i386
> 
> Kernel: Linux 3.13.2 (SMP w/8 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
> Locale: LANG=de_DE, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to de_DE)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> 
> Versions of packages libsasl2-modules depends on:
> ii  libc6        2.17-97
> ii  libssl1.0.0  1.0.1f-1
> 
> libsasl2-modules recommends no packages.
> 
> Versions of packages libsasl2-modules suggests:
> pn  libsasl2-modules-gssapi-mit | libsasl2-modules-gssapi-heimdal  <none>
> pn  libsasl2-modules-ldap                                          <none>
> pn  libsasl2-modules-otp                                           <none>
> pn  libsasl2-modules-sql                                           <none>
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
> -- 
> Klaus Ethgen                              http://www.ethgen.ch/
> pub  4096R/4E20AF1C 2011-05-16   Klaus Ethgen <Klaus at Ethgen.de>
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-- 
Roberto C. Sánchez
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