Bug reports - auth is broken in Dovecot 2.3.3

[Aki Tuomi]

> On 04 October 2018 at 11:05 Florian Pritz <bluewind at xinu.at> wrote:
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> On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 03:47:11PM +0300, Berindeie Avram-Teodor <berindeie.teo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 2:44 PM Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> > > On 3 Oct 2018, at 14.09, Berindeie Avram-Teodor <berindeie.teo at gmail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >> On Wed, Oct 3, 2018 at 1:53 PM Timo Sirainen <tss at iki.fi> wrote:
> > >>> On 3 Oct 2018, at 13.22, Berindeie Avram-Teodor <berindeie.teo at gmail.com>
> > >>> wrote:
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> This seems to be a lot of discussion about a rather simple patch. What
> was the reason for not including it in the 2.3.3 release, given that the
> patch date says it is from August? To me it seems like a really simple
> patch that shouldn't cause any problems so I would have expected it to
> be included into master right away, but maybe I'm wrong there and there
> is some hidden issue. If that's the case, please tell me since I'd like
> to understand the reasoning a bit better.
> 
> Florian

The patch is already in master, but 2.3.3 is not released as 'HEAD' from master. The reason it's not in 2.3.3, is that we do not see it as super-urgent patch, since it affects glibc-2.2.28 mostly. 

Aki