Bug#980893: [PATCH] Support SCRAM-SHA-1 etc via libgsasl

[Simon Josefsson]

sön 2021-01-24 klockan 18:18 +0100 skrev Andreas Metzler:
> On 2021-01-23 Simon Josefsson <simon at josefsson.org> wrote:
> > Package: exim4
> > Tags: patch
> 
> > Hi!
> 
> > The patch below links exim4-daemon-heavy to libgsasl to enable the
> > 'gsasl' authenticator support in exim, see:
> 
> > https://exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch-the_gsasl_authenticator.html
> 
> > This makes it possible to enable SCRAM-SHA-1 and SCRAM-SHA-256 in
> > Exim
> > via libgsasl.
> 
> > Any chance this could make it into bullseye?  Thanks :)
> [...]
> 
> Hello Simon,
> 
> I am very reluctant to link exim against another SASL library since
> it
> is already linked against the Cyrus SASL library.

Hi!  Any chance this could be revisited?  Linking to both Cyrus SASL
and GNU SASL is similar to linking to both MySQL and PostgreSQL in my
mind.  Exim already links to multiple similar libraries too, e.g.
OpenSSL/GnuTLS, libcrypto/libnettle.

/Simon
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