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

[Roberto C. Sanchez]

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.  I generally use stable on all my machines,
so that is how I do much of my development work, on Stable.  Anyhow, is
there any idea how many packages we are talking about?  The RC bug count
for Etch is still much higher than the RMs wanted (160 in the last mail
I saw, IIRC).  So, we may yet have a window in which to work.

Regards,

-Roberto

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