Re: Cyrus-sasl official releases?
Ken Murchison via Cyrus-sasl <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.security.cyrus.sasl |
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| Organization | Carnegie Mellon University |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
I'd like to get a new release out the door by the end of October. On 09/23/2016 04:50 AM, Jakub Jelen via Cyrus-sasl wrote: > Thank you for clarification. Clearly, I can do a snapshot from a git, > but it was something I wanted to avoid in an official distribution. > > Do you or someone else from the maintainers plan to do the official > release in close future? Is there some blocker? I can certainly test > the release/pre-release to make sure it does what it is supposed to do. > > Jakub > > > On 09/23/2016 09:20 AM, Ignacio Casal Quinteiro wrote: >> Hey Jakub, >> >> my release contains patches that are not yet upstream, also it is not >> an official release but I use it for my own projects, see gtk-win32. >> That said, we really need a new release of cyrus-sasl, and we >> probably would be better suited with my release or using a snapshot out >> of git. >> >> Cheers. >> >> On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 9:17 AM, Jakub Jelen <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Hello there, >> >> some time ago, I contributed several patches from Fedora that we >> were using into the cyrus-sasl fork on github [1] and if I see >> right, they made it back to the official git repository. Since >> that time, there were two releases on github, but none of them is >> mentioned in the official cyrus-sasl website nor available on the >> official FTP [2] (still linked from the fork readme). >> >> Can we consider this as an official release? Is it planned to be >> available in the official FTP? Or is the upstream abandoned and >> the future work will be done on github? Adding Nacho to CC, who is >> doing these releases and should be able to bring some light into >> that. >> >> Why do I ask? I would like to update the Fedora package and get >> rid of the bunch of patches we carry around for years (since they >> are upstream), but I would not like to pick up some "random fork" >> (with no offense -- I really appreciate the work Ignacio Casal >> Quinteiro and Ken Murchison did so far). >> >> [1] https://github.com/wingtk/cyrus-sasl >> <https://github.com/wingtk/cyrus-sasl> >> [2] ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/cyrus-mail >> <ftp://ftp.andrew.cmu.edu/pub/cyrus-mail> >> >> >> Kind regards, >> >> -- Jakub Jelen >> Associate Software Engineer >> Security Technologies >> Red Hat >> >> > -- Kenneth Murchison Principal Systems Software Engineer Carnegie Mellon University