Bug#894297: Intent to NMU cyrus-sasl2 (was: [PATCH] cyrus-sasl2: please add build-profile support)

[Karsten Merker]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 04:53:43PM +0200, Karsten Merker wrote:

[Architeture bootstrapping issues with cyrus-sasl2]
> Cyrus-sasl2 is involved in a circular dependency chain whose
> untangling requires building the package in multiple steps with
> reduced functionality and reduced build-dependencies.  To achieve
> that, debian/rules currently supports passing a number of options
> (no-sql, no-ldap and no-gssapi) in $(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS).  This
> mechanism has the limitation that it requires manually adjusting the
> build-dependency list based on the options set and makes it hard to
> autobuild the package in a bootstrapping context.  The use of
> build-profiles (https://wiki.debian.org/BuildProfileSpec) would make
> this process quite a bit easier.  Attached is a patch that adds
> build-profile support to the packge while keeping the original
> $(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)-based mechanism in place.
> 
> The build profile names follow the "extension namespace" conventions
> from the build profile specification:
> 
> DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS -> build-profile name
> -----------------------------------------
> no-sql            -> pkg.cyrus-sasl2.nosql
> no-ldap           -> pkg.cyrus-sasl2.noldap
> no-gssapi         -> pkg.cyrus-sasl2.nogssapi
> 
> It would be very helpful for our bootstrapping efforts if you could
> upload a version of the cyrus-sasl2 package with this patch applied to
> unstable in the near future.  For a standard build the patch changes
> nothing, so there should be no significant risk in applying it.

Hello Ondřej,

unless you should object, I intend to perform an NMU of cyrus-sasl2
with the patch from bug #894297 under Low-Threshold-NMU rules on
Sunday.

Reasons:

- Judging from https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=799864,
  the package changelog and the lack of activity on the
  pkg-cyrus-sasl2-debian-devel mailinglist, you appear to be the
  only remaining person in the cyrus-sasl2 packaging team.

- You have marked all your packages as "Low-Threshold-NMU" at
  https://wiki.debian.org/LowThresholdNmu.

- The patch from bug #894297 is largely noninvasive as it doesn't
  touch the actual cyrus-sasl2 codebase, only has any effect
  at all if a build-profile is explicitly enabled during building
  the package and uses the existing DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS-based
  infrastructure in debian/rules.

Regards,
Karsten
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