New cyrus-sasl2 packages

Roberto C. Sanchez roberto at connexer.com
Tue Oct 17 11:09:09 UTC 2006


On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 06:56:37AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 10:52:08AM +0200, Gerfried Fuchs wrote:
> > * "Roberto C. Sanchez" <roberto at connexer.com> [2006-10-16 01:18]:
> > > Mail-Followup-To: ...
> > 
> >  quite helfpul, if you ask me. :)  I'm not sure if you wanted that, but
> > I'm following your wish.
> > 
> I'm cutting down the addresses to which this reply goes :-)
> 
> > > * These packages are still in a state of flux, so please bear with us
> > 
> >  And they are, as one can see in #393318 - the bug isn't in libetpan nor
> > in etpan-ng.  Please keep in mind that filing FTBFS RC bugs because of
> > some package that is "still in a state of flux" is helping at no end ...
> > Especially FTBFS bugs which don't appear in a clean unstable chroot
> > aren't helpful at all.  If you still work on the package and don't
> > upload it, there is no problem - and you still can fix the problems
> > appearing within your own package.
> > 
> You bring up a good point.  However, I'd like to point out that the fact
> that a feature is disabled in SASL (namely LDAP support) and ends up
> cause *unrelated* breakage in etpan-ng and libetpan, means that there is
> in fact some sort of latent bug in those packages.  If you like, you are
> free to lower the severity of the bugs.  However, the fact that there
> exists a not-so-exotic circumstance under which those packages fail to
> build means that furher investigation should conducted.
> 
Please disregard my message.  I overlooked that fact that symbol
versioning is not yet implemented in our new packages.

Regards,

-Roberto

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