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Bug#980893: [PATCH] Support SCRAM-SHA-1 etc via libgsasl

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On 2026-08-30 Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> wrote:
> sön 2021-01-24 klockan 18:18 +0100 skrev Andreas Metzler:
> > On 2021-01-23 Simon Josefsson <simon@josefsson.org> wrote:
> > > Package: exim4
> > > Tags: patch
> > 
> > > Hi!
> > 
> > > The patch below links exim4-daemon-heavy to libgsasl to enable the
> > > 'gsasl' authenticator support in exim, see:
> > 
> > > https://exim.org/exim-html-current/doc/html/spec_html/ch-the_gsasl_authenticator.html
> > 
> > > This makes it possible to enable SCRAM-SHA-1 and SCRAM-SHA-256 in
> > > Exim
> > > via libgsasl.
> > 
> > > Any chance this could make it into bullseye?  Thanks :)
> > [...]

> > I am very reluctant to link exim against another SASL library since
> > it
> > is already linked against the Cyrus SASL library.

> Hi!  Any chance this could be revisited?  Linking to both Cyrus SASL
> and GNU SASL is similar to linking to both MySQL and PostgreSQL in my
> mind.  Exim already links to multiple similar libraries too, e.g.
> OpenSSL/GnuTLS, libcrypto/libnettle.

Hello Simon,

The upload to fix this was rejected during NEW processing, dfsg team now
seems to have a hard requirement for DEP5.

I will need to check whether exim4's copyright file can be maintained
with cme, a oneshot conversions just increases the maintenace burden.

Anyway this is going to take at least a couple hours, and I do not
know yet when I have the time and an energy to spend on this. So I am
removing the *pending* tag.

cu Andreas
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Bug#980893: [PATCH] Support SCRAM-SHA-1 etc via libgsasl Andreas Metzler <ametzler@bebt.de> - 2026-09-01 19:30 +0200

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