As of this writing, all packages in Debian have transitioned to the newer libsasl2 (cyrus-sasl2). The last user of libsasl7 (sendmail-wide) is being removed from sid at the request of its maintainer.
Cyrus-SASL 1.5 (libsasl7) has been deprecated upstream for years. Can we remove cyrus-sasl and libsasl7 packages from sarge and sid? Moving them to oldlibs is the other possibility. However, oldlibs would require security efforts to be maintained for sarge at the very least. libsasl7 is an occasional target for a security upgrade, AND it almost always causes trouble... there is real benefit on dropping it from the distribution. I am still waiting word from the SASL maintainer ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on the issue, but assuming he has nothing against the removal, it would be good to know what our users think of it. It is important to note that anything still using cyrus-sasl 1.5 is way past due time for an upgrade, and you are better off without it IMHO (I speak as a long user of SASL-using apps, long time maintainer of SASL-using apps, and part time co-maintainer of cyrus-sasl*). -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
