cyrus-sasl2 status

[Ondřej Surý]

Hi Roberto,

2011/5/20 Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto at connexer.com>:
>> Since the cyrus-sasl2 is blocking my db5.1 transition I was thinking
>> that I might become more active in the cyrus-sasl2 packaging group.
>>
> That would help.  I have been quite busy and don't have as much time as
> I would like to devote to some of my Debian packages.

Cool, I'll import last unstable version to git and import all svn diffs.

>> So if you have any thoughts is there something I can help?
>>
> Certainly, we need help with some of the older outstanding bugs, and
> possibly also with trying to get upstream to merge some of the patches
> that we carry.

I'll do what I can.

>> Also I have noticed that Roberto commited fixes to #621437 and #622221
>> to repository, is the upload going to happen soon?
>>
> I did, but I was also going to implement a fix for #618885 and include
> that in the upload.  But I have not had time.

Done (in the prepared git), the most simplest solution is to check in
prerm (where all the files are still installed) if the sasldb2
database contains any users and if not just remove it. I took the code
from postinst.

I'll also improve the Berkeley DB upgrade code to not depend on debian
versions. I have a quite experience with that.

And in next pass I would like to convert the package to dh7.

After the I will add myself to uploaders and upload -9.

How does that sound?

>> P.S.: There's a small wishlist though...  do you think we can dump
>> subversion and replace it with git? It's much more convenient (when
>> you get used to it) with cheap branching, etc. and magnitude faster
>> then subversion.
>
> I was previously strongly in favor of keeping subversion, but as more of
> my projects have gone over to git I have become more comfortable with
> it.  I am not specifically inclined to convert the repository, but if
> you want to do the conversion, I can start working with a git repository
> for this package.

I don't think we need conversion...  We can import the last package
and if we need we can go look into the old subversion repository.

The conversion is just too much trouble and the benefit is not big.

> Were you planning on using the Git service on Alioth?

Yes, sure. Could you give me the admin rights to the alioth project?

O.
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Ondřej Surý <ondrej at sury.org>