[Pkg-openldap-devel] Bug#628237: Bug#628237: OpenLDAP vs. SASL - what happened

[Steve Langasek]

Hi Dan,

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 02:09:55PM -0500, Dan White wrote:

> >>Now you could argue that Cyrus upstream should not do that, i.e. breaking
> >>the plugin ABI for a "step" release but that argument is two years late
> >>(which is how long the .24 has been around).

> >There is no cyrus-sasl 2.1.24 release.  There is a release
> >candidate, which when I tested it, had a series of serious flaws.
> >Why anyone would add that to a distribution is beyond me.  The
> >latest release of cyrus-sasl is 2.1.23.  I find it significant
> >that after 2 years there still remains no official 2.1.24 release
> >after the numerous issue reports that were filtered back to the
> >project.

> There's been quite a bit of new work even since the 2.1.24rc1 tarball,
> including work corresponding to the newer IETF SASL standards (GS2, SCRAM,
> and channel binding), so I wouldn't be surprised to see another version
> bump before the next release. The package in Debian is actually based on
> CVS HEAD, and should be in much better shape than 2.1.24rc1 was.

> Please file any outstanding issues against the sasl packages, and I'll try
> to filter those to upstream developers as appropriate.

Since 2.1.24 is still in the RC stages, given that this is an ABI change,
*would* it be possible to get the soname bumped before the 2.1.24 release?

If not, I'll push a rebuild of openldap in Debian and coordinate with the
cyrus-sasl2 maintainers to get a proper Breaks field declared for the
upgrade case.

Thanks,
-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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