New cyrus-sasl2 packages

Roberto C. Sanchez roberto at connexer.com
Tue Oct 17 11:01:35 UTC 2006


On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 09:17:59AM +0300, Fabian Fagerholm wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2006-10-16 at 15:53 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> > Is someone working on this?  If not, I will try and get to it, but it
> > will be several hours before I can even start.  Also, about all I can
> > really handle is the reautofu-izing part.  I don't know enough about
> > libtool (yet) to be able help out on that.  So, if someone could start
> > on that now, it be very helpful.
> 
> As I just wrote in an email to Steve Langasek, the package is just not
> there yet. There are lots of things left to do before we can even
> consider uploading to experimental, such as ensuring the libtool and
> auto* stuff is correct, adding versioned symbols, etc. etc. etc.
> 
I thought that at least symbol versioning was done, based on the patch
in debian/patches.  Anyhow, I will work on reautofooizing everything
soon now.

> I guess it'll just take time until some more people have gone through
> the same things as I have -- but you could save yourselves a lot of time
> by reading the mailing list archives and making sure you understand what
> I'm talking about in my progress mails.
> 
OK.  I'll make sure to pay closer attention.

> I'm sorry if someone thought we are nearly finished, because there is
> still a lot left to do. I do think I've made it clear a few times,
> though. In fact, my last request for help to this list was about
> patches, and that required an understanding of libtool and other
> build-related things to answer. So it seems to me that there is a lack
> of knowledge, but instead of acquiring that knowledge, we turn our
> attention to other, less important, parts of the package.
> 
Umm.  Oops?

> I've personally tried to work on gaining the knowledge I need, but it
> doesn't happen overnight, and that's why the project may seem stalled
> from time to time. It would be great if we could discuss and solve the
> really hard issues on this list. That way, we accumulate knowledge among
> ourselves. I think it would be a great disservice to all our users to
> release a package before the team can handle its maintenance. I know
> it's popular these days to just do whatever you can as fast as possible
> and call it done, but that's not the way I want us to handle this
> critical package.
> 
It looks like the libtool stuff is the major roadblock at the moment.  I
will get to work on that as soon as I can manage it.

Regards,

-Roberto

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