Bug#400747: Bug#400955: Time to step up to the plate... Bug 400747

Andreas Metzler ametzler at downhill.at.eu.org
Wed Dec 6 19:24:22 CET 2006


On 2006-12-06 "Roberto C. Sanchez" <roberto at connexer.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 06:50:37PM +0200, Fabian Fagerholm wrote:
> > 
> > Currently cyrus-sasl2 includes a patch that allows trailing CR/LF/CRLF.
> > With etch in mind, we don't have time to track down and fix all packages
> > that supply junk among the base64 data, but we should definitely start
> > to hunt down all such cases. Unfortunately, for etch I think we're going
> > to have to "hide" this bug in other programs by including this patch.
> > After etch, dropping that patch in the unstable version is going to be
> > among the first things on my list...
> > 

> Just realize that such an approach effectively prevents backporting
> after the release of Etch. 
[...]

? Afaiu you are going to put a version of sasl into that can work
with broken apps (handing over R/LF/CRLF). *After* etch's release you
are going to search and fix these broken application and later channge
cyrus-sasl to no accept garbage anymore, at this point of time the
situtation for backporting looks like this:

etch sasl + other backported stuff from sid (no-more-garbage) --> ok
backported sid sasl + other backported stuff from etch --> ok
backported sid sasl + etch apps (which are broken) --> not ok.

As most cases of backporting work I fail to see the big issue.
cu andreas
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