[Pkg-openldap-devel] Re: Request For Comments: SASL transition and OpenLDAP

[Steve Langasek]

On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 03:38:25PM +0300, Fabian Fagerholm wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-10-22 at 01:08 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 09:35:26AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> > > Your point being that it should be possible to simply build the new
> > > sasl2 against the current (old-sasl linked) openldap because "new" and
> > > "old" sasl2 are supposed to be binary compatible?

> > Yes, exactly.

> You're right, my bad. It builds fine.

> What about the other implications of this change? Are you prepared to
> work with us to iron out any bugs that may arise from the new version,
> aiming for inclusion in etch?

Well, <switching back to release manager hat> yes, I'm prepared to work with
you on this; it does look like having the new upstream version in etch would
be a significant improvement.  But we would need to get it into unstable
quickly.

It is still contingent on the new packages being compatible with the
existing ones, of course, to not "rock the boat" for the release.

Thanks,
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