Why new package name libsasl2-2

Roberto C. Sanchez roberto at connexer.com
Sun Oct 15 17:42:22 UTC 2006


On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 07:39:35PM +0200, Sven Mueller wrote:
> Andreas Metzler schrieb:
> > thanks to you all for investing time and energy to kick sasl in shape.
> 
> I second that.
> 
> > #1 The library package name has changed from libsasl2-2 to libsasl2. I
> > cannot see a reason for that, the soname is the same one as
> > previously. 
> 
> I'm also wondering the same thing: Why is there a need to rename the
> package? I didn't find any so far. The new library seems to work as a
> drop-in-replacement for the old one AFAICT (I didn't test it on a
> production system yet), but the packaging makes updates a lot more
> difficult than they would need to be, especially so close before the
> freeze for a new stable release.
> 
OK.  I started renaming to correspond to the old names and then
reverted.  I will go ahead and rename and then commit so that we are
dropping in for old packages.

Regards,

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sanchez
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