Priority of libsasl2-modules

[Fabian Fagerholm]

On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 23:55 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> Actually, there is *one* scenario where -modules must have the same priority
> as the lib package:  if any packages of the same or higher priority actually
> *require* SASL to be operational to even work.
> 
> Some protocols *require* SASL autentication to work, and those will just
> not work at all without -modules.  If anything priority important or higher
> implements such a beast, -modules must be of priority important or higher.
> 
> Someone might want to check the revdeps of libsasl that are of priority
> higher or above for such pitfalls.

AFAICS, there is no package of priority important or higher that depends
on libsasl2-2 (mutt does, but it's only priority standard, and it seems
to work without the -modules package).

So we have to look out for this in the future, and hope that maintainers
of such packages will be careful and notify us.

-- 
Fabian Fagerholm <fabbe at paniq.net>
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