Current status?

Roberto C. Sanchez roberto at connexer.com
Sun Oct 15 20:20:31 UTC 2006


On Fri, Aug 25, 2006 at 09:14:46AM +0300, Fabian Fagerholm wrote:
> 
> After those are dealt with, my proposed plan is to establish the
> criteria for an experimental upload. I guess those criteria could be
> pretty lax at the moment, such as "builds packages with the correct
> contents in a clean sid chroot". So that would mean I will upload to
> experimental once all those patches have been decided on.
> 
> As for starting to upload this thing into unstable, the criteria have to
> be more strict. In my opinion, we need at least the following:
> 
>       * A complete list of reverse dependencies. We need to perform a
>         library transition and need to be in touch with those who depend
>         on this package. Doing test builds of each of those can also be
>         helpful to spot issues early.

I will try and start on that this week.

>       * A special transition is required for OpenLDAP; currently we
>         build --without-ldap because of the chicken-and-egg problem
>         between it and our package.

We need to start working on this right away.

>       * A double-check of soname versioning and related issues from
>         someone with lots of experience. I wouldn't want to risk a
>         mistake here.

Also, the SONAME is another question.  Sven and Andreas and I thought
the package should still be named libsasl2.  However, when I changed it,
it turns out that lintian complains about the SONAME mismatch.  Why is
this happening?

>       * A review of the documentation and preferably better
>         documentation on how the package integrates with Debian (how to
>         configure SASL in Debian).

I have some notes on this sort of stuff from my own experiences of
setting up SASL in Debian.  However, I am not sure we can get it in
there quick enough for Etch.  This may need to wait.

>       * A blessing from the RM's. If I were in the RM's shoes, I would
>         *at least* require assurance that this team is really going to
>         work hard on this package to iron out any issues before they
>         become a blocker for the release.
> 

Agreed.  Hopefully, we can convince them.

> This is probably not an exhaustive list. As I've said before, I wouldn't
> be too optimistic about getting this into etch -- not that it's
> impossible, it just requires a lot of work. So it really boils down to
> whether or not each of us can put in that effort.
> 

Regards,

-Roberto

-- 
Roberto C. Sanchez
http://people.connexer.com/~roberto
http://www.connexer.com
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