Re: eleventh-hour transition for mysql-using packages related to apache

[Andreas Metzler <ametzler@downhill.at.eu.org>]

[Cc ing Frankie as the foo@p.d.o addresses appear to be non-functional]
On 2005-01-31 Francesco Paolo Lovergine <frankie@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 02:34:07PM +0100, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> > These four packages also link against both libpam and libmysqlclient10
> > and might experience segfaults when accessing MYSQL over PAM with
> > libpam-mysql if libpam-mysql switched to libmysqlclient12:
 
> > linesrv-mysql, pure-ftpd-mysql, proftpd-mysql and courier-authmysql
 
> > I am saying /might/ as it is entirely possible that one or more of
> > these link against libpam without using it.

> > (The two mentioned ftp daemons probably cannot switch to -12, as they
> > link against libssl.)

> For what concern proftpd, it does not use libpam-mysql at all,
> so I see no problem for that.

Hello,
Ehh. As maintainer of a PAM-using application you usually have no
control which PAM modules are used. You just ship the application with
a /etc/pam.d/foo using

@include common-<whatever>

and the *end-user* can (and probably will, if he installs stuff like
libpam-mysql) change these defaults to use modules of his choice.
                   cu andreas
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