[Pkg-cyrus-sasl2-debian-devel] New upstream version

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh hmh at debian.org
Tue May 30 15:29:07 UTC 2006


On Tue, 30 May 2006, Sven Mueller wrote:
> A total of 37 source packages, so I would say that this is managable if
> the new cyrus-sasl2 upstream version doesn't have too many API/ABI changes.

*Usually* (i.e. we must check this), all ABI/API changes upstream does are
backwards-compatible, so you just bump the shlib soname, and be done with
it.  It causes no breakages on packages compiled against an older sasl2.

*Configuration* changes are not, however.  In fact, they have broken all
existing saslauthd setups once.  That is something we have to be careful
about, but at least it is something to be fixed inside the sasl2 package
domain, and does not leak into other packages.

-- 
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  Henrique Holschuh



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