Bug#292906: exim4-daemon-heavy: Compiled without cyrus_sasl authenticator

[Andreas Metzler]

On 2005-02-06 Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 01:31:54AM +0100, RISKO Gergely wrote:
> > Please compile the heavy package with cyrus_sasl authenticator.  ldd
> > /usr/sbin/exim4 says that sasl2 is linked already anyway, so we won't
> > loss anything, but will get a great _real_ sasl support.

> I can't judge what this would mean to us. Andreas, what do you mean?

Hello,
Well, -heavy links against libldap2 and libldap2 links against libsasl2.
I am not sure, but I guess Gergely is right and linking exim4 directly
against libsasl2 would not bring additional performance/memory
penalties. (_If_ libldap2 will continue to link against libsasl2.)

I think 30s of the ldap's maintainers' time on IRC would clear this up
for sure.

> Anyway, we need to postpone that bug until 4.44 has arrived in sarge
> as I don't think it would be a good idea to reset our counter for this.

> In the absence of testing-proposed-updates, I wouldn't dare to compile
> cyrus-sasl into the exim4 packages without the release team's approval.

Agreed on both counts.
            cu andreas
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