[Pkg-cyrus-sasl2-commits] r229 - in /cyrus-sasl-2.1/trunk/debian: README.Debian changelog control

fabbe at users.alioth.debian.org fabbe at users.alioth.debian.org
Thu Jun 7 11:18:26 UTC 2007


Author: fabbe
Date: Thu Jun  7 11:18:25 2007
New Revision: 229

URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-cyrus-sasl2/?sc=1&rev=229
Log:
Improve wording regarding the need to install the -modules packages.

Modified:
    cyrus-sasl-2.1/trunk/debian/README.Debian
    cyrus-sasl-2.1/trunk/debian/changelog
    cyrus-sasl-2.1/trunk/debian/control

Modified: cyrus-sasl-2.1/trunk/debian/README.Debian
URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-cyrus-sasl2/cyrus-sasl-2.1/trunk/debian/README.Debian?rev=229&op=diff
==============================================================================
--- cyrus-sasl-2.1/trunk/debian/README.Debian (original)
+++ cyrus-sasl-2.1/trunk/debian/README.Debian Thu Jun  7 11:18:25 2007
@@ -14,10 +14,11 @@
 can choose what functionality to install and what to leave out.
 
 IMPORTANT:
-You MUST install one of the libsasl2-modules* packages for SASL to work.
-Otherwise postfix-tls won't speak TLS, Cyrus IMAPd won't ever allow any users
-to log in, and other SASL apps will malfuntion in weird ways and there will
-be even more pain and sorrow in the world (yours).
+You MUST install one of the libsasl2-modules* packages for SASL to work with
+server programs. Otherwise server software like Postfix and Cyrus IMAPd will
+not allow any users to log in, and other SASL apps will malfuntion in weird
+ways. If you do not intend to use SASL on your server, then the
+libsasl2-modules* packages are not necessary for you.
 
 SASL uses /dev/urandom, which doesn't block when the system runs out of
 entropy. However, when the system does run out of entropy, the random numbers
@@ -44,4 +45,4 @@
 contains details about the Debian packaging project. All comments and bug
 reports are welcome, please use the Debian Bug Tracking System to submit them.
 
- -- Fabian Fagerholm <fabbe at debian.org>, Fri, 25 Oct 2006 13:14:07 +0300
+ -- Fabian Fagerholm <fabbe at debian.org>, Fri,  7 Jun 2007 14:13:07 +0300

Modified: cyrus-sasl-2.1/trunk/debian/changelog
URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-cyrus-sasl2/cyrus-sasl-2.1/trunk/debian/changelog?rev=229&op=diff
==============================================================================
--- cyrus-sasl-2.1/trunk/debian/changelog (original)
+++ cyrus-sasl-2.1/trunk/debian/changelog Thu Jun  7 11:18:25 2007
@@ -4,8 +4,13 @@
 
   [ Fabian Fagerholm ]
   * debian/sasl2-bin.README.Debian: Small improvement to multi-init docs.
-
- -- Fabian Fagerholm <fabbe at debian.org>  Thu,  7 Jun 2007 13:50:15 +0300
+  * debian/control, debian/README.Debian: Change the wording regarding the
+    need to install the modules packages, since they are not needed on all
+    systems but are needed especially on servers that provide SASL
+    authentication.
+
+
+ -- Fabian Fagerholm <fabbe at debian.org>  Thu,  7 Jun 2007 14:15:26 +0300
 
 cyrus-sasl2 (2.1.22.dfsg1-11) unstable; urgency=low
 

Modified: cyrus-sasl-2.1/trunk/debian/control
URL: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-cyrus-sasl2/cyrus-sasl-2.1/trunk/debian/control?rev=229&op=diff
==============================================================================
--- cyrus-sasl-2.1/trunk/debian/control (original)
+++ cyrus-sasl-2.1/trunk/debian/control Thu Jun  7 11:18:25 2007
@@ -48,9 +48,9 @@
  This is the Cyrus SASL API implementation, version 2.1.
  .
  Any of: ANONYMOUS, CRAM-MD5, DIGEST-MD5, GSSAPI (MIT Kerberos 5 or MIT
- Kerberos 5), NTLM, OTP, PLAIN, or LOGIN can be used. This package is
- unusable without the SASL plugins. Most likely you will need to install
- the libsasl2-modules package.
+ Kerberos 5), NTLM, OTP, PLAIN, or LOGIN can be used. If you intend to use
+ this package on a server that provides SASL authentication, then you must
+ install some of the libsasl2-modules* packages.
 
 Package: libsasl2-modules
 Section: libs




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