Thanks to all of you. Fixed cyrus-sasl2 was uploaded.
O. 2012/3/4 Helmut Grohne <hel...@subdivi.de>: > reassign 628237 libsasl2-2 > reassign 655845 libsasl2-2 > found 628237 2.1.25.dfsg1-3 > found 655845 2.1.25.dfsg1-3 > tags 628237 + patch > tags 655845 + patch > thanks > > Most of the work on understanding these issues was already done by Ralph > Rößner[1] and Steve Langasek[2]. Thank you both for your excellent work. > > I can not explain precisely how 628237 happened. However I did try > upgrading slapd from squeeze to sid and encountered both of these issues > in different ways. > > The first event was that libsasl2-2 changed its ABI without bumping the > soname. If you upgrade libsasl2-2 on from squeeze to sid and the upgrade > slapd, you will see that the dumping of the database (preinst) will fail > with the error message shown in #655845. Later Steve Langasek rebuilt[3] > slapd against the changed libsasl2. Now this rebuilt slapd fails to work > with squeeze libsasl2-2. This can be seen by upgrading just slapd (and > everything it pulls which does not include libsasl2-2) from squeeze to > sid. Interestingly this gives an error (postinst) very similar to the > one shown in #628237, which looks like a time loop, but is what I > observe. > > Now Steve Langasek already observed[2] that libsasl2-2 needs to break > the squeeze version of slapd (or bump soname, but it is too late for > this move). On the other hand slapd needs to depend on the changed ABI > of libsasl2-2. The preferred way of doing this is by libsasl2-2 > providing a shlibs dependency. I attached a debdiff to cyrus-sasl2 that > applies both changes. Of course this also requires a rebuild of openldap > against the fixed libsasl2-2. Using these new packages the upgrade from > squeeze to sid works as expected. > > Helmut > > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=628237#80 > [2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=628237#129 > [3] version 2.4.25-4, closing #628237, see > > http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/o/openldap/current/changelog#version2.4.25-4 > > _______________________________________________ > Pkg-cyrus-sasl2-debian-devel mailing list > pkg-cyrus-sasl2-debian-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-cyrus-sasl2-debian-devel -- Ondřej Surý <ond...@sury.org> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
