Bug#538296: libauthen-sasl-cyrus-perl: Patches to Authen::SASL::Cyrus::Security have not been applied

Russ Allbery rra at debian.org
Fri Jul 24 16:57:33 UTC 2009


Ben Poliakoff <benp at reed.edu> writes:

> The source archive for this package contains two patches to the
> Authen::SASL::Cyrus::Security module:
>
>     correct-write-return-value
>     encode-no-more-than-MAX_OUTBUF
>
> They aren't actually being applied when the package is built due to a
> missing "patch" statement in the debian/rules file.  I've verified this
> issue on my own system (backporting the package to lenny) as well as on
> the packages hosted in the official Debian archives
>
> Attached is a very small patch which adds the "patch" statement to the
> "build-stamp" target, this appears to be the way to trigger quilt patch
> application in the build process.  Builds with this modification result
> in these important patches being applied.

Ugh, indeed.  Sorry about that -- looks like I broke that when updating
the rules file to use debhelper 7.  I'm working on a fix now.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>





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