[pfx] Re: help debugging SASL authentication failure: No worthy mechs found

* Greg Klanderman via Postfix-users <[email protected]> [260406 14:03]:
> My point is, that when I just installed trixie/13 a week ago and then
> switched the sources to testing/14, the state of the system when I
> then ran 'apt install postfix' (A) was that libsasl2-2 (B) had already
> been installed, but not libsasl2-modules (C).  So when I installed
> postfix, no sasl modules were installed.
> 
> I *never* used the option to skip installing recommendations.

I find this extremely surprising.  How did you install trixie/13?
netinst image?  debootstrap?  Something else?  What desktop (if any) did
you select during installation?  Specifically which version of trixie
did you install (current version is 13.4)?  Was this a fresh install or
an upgrade from a previous version?

I performed two installs (into VMs) of the netinst image
https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-cd/debian-13.4.0-amd64-netinst.iso
linked from https://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst.

For both, I used the non-graphical expert install.  For the first, I
chose to install no desktop environment, and for the second I chose the
default desktop environment.  In the console-only system, none of
libsasl2-2, libsasl2-modules, or libsasl2-modules-db were installed.  In
the desktop system, all three were installed.

I did not install postfix (or any other MTA) in either system.

Your installation must have been done differently.  Perhaps you used an
older version of trixie and there was a bug in the libsasl2-2
dependencies?  I don't see any such fix in the debian changelog for the
package.  Perhaps you chose a different desktop environment, and that
desktop somehow installed libsasl2-2 without libsasl2-modules?  I'm not
a debian installer expert, but I know enough about it to be skeptical of
this.

I am at a loss to explain what you observed.  If you can't reproduce it
with a fresh install, I would just drop it; installing postfix will,
with default apt settings, bring in libsasl2-modules.

If you can reproduce it, the details of how you performed the install
would be very interesting.

...Marvin

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