Control: tags -1 - pending On 2026-08-30 Simon Josefsson <[email protected]> wrote: > sön 2021-01-24 klockan 18:18 +0100 skrev Andreas Metzler: > > On 2021-01-23 Simon Josefsson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Package: exim4 > > > Tags: patch > > > > > Hi! > > > > > The patch below links exim4-daemon-heavy to libgsasl to enable the > > > 'gsasl' authenticator support in exim, see: > > > > > https://exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch-the_gsasl_authenticator.html > > > > > This makes it possible to enable SCRAM-SHA-1 and SCRAM-SHA-256 in > > > Exim > > > via libgsasl. > > > > > Any chance this could make it into bullseye? Thanks :) > > [...]
> > I am very reluctant to link exim against another SASL library since > > it > > is already linked against the Cyrus SASL library. > Hi! Any chance this could be revisited? Linking to both Cyrus SASL > and GNU SASL is similar to linking to both MySQL and PostgreSQL in my > mind. Exim already links to multiple similar libraries too, e.g. > OpenSSL/GnuTLS, libcrypto/libnettle. Hello Simon, The upload to fix this was rejected during NEW processing, dfsg team now seems to have a hard requirement for DEP5. I will need to check whether exim4's copyright file can be maintained with cme, a oneshot conversions just increases the maintenace burden. Anyway this is going to take at least a couple hours, and I do not know yet when I have the time and an energy to spend on this. So I am removing the *pending* tag. cu Andreas -- "You people are noisy," Nia said. I made the gesture of agreement.
