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Please unblock package dictd, which fixes quite an important bug for
users of amd64 or other 64-bit architectures, who want to use
authentication feature in dict/dict. The bug makes it impossible to authenticate
32-bit dict client to 64-bit dictd server or vice versa.
Obviously the fix breaks backward compatibility of authenitcation on amd64 platform,
but ensures forward compatibility - I mean that e.g. dict 1.11.2+dfsg-4 client
running on amd64 won't authenticate against any previous version of dictd server on
the platform, but it should be able to authenticate against any later version.
I consider the forward compatiblity as more important and that's why I think it
would be great to have the fixed dictd in squueze. Also please note that any
authentication is disabled by default and most of the users shouldn't be affected
with the change anyway.
dictd (1.11.2+dfsg-4) unstable; urgency=medium
* md5-64bit.patch: fix invalid definition on uint32 type on 64-bit systems
(except for alpha), which caused failures when 64-bit dict client tried
to authenticate a user against 32-bit dictd server (closes: #611203).
* Add Brazilian Portuguese debconf templates translation (closes: #610408).
-- Robert Luberda <robert@debian.org> Fri, 28 Jan 2011 23:53:32 +0100
Obviously, the fix introduces
unblock dictd/1.11.2+dfsg-4
Regards,
robert
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