gsoap doesn't authenticate in 12.04LTS

[Robie Basak]

Hi David,

On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 02:38:59PM +1030, David Newall wrote:
> The gsoap package in precise (12.04LTS) is old and buggy, and
> clients do not authenticate because the call to soap_s2base64 is
> done before inserting the credentials; it needs to be done after.
> This bug came from the author's source.  The version of gsoap in
> precise is more than two years old.  Even the version from raring is
> 18 months old, but has that bug fixed.

It doesn't seem unreasonable to me for the version of gsoap in Precise
to be more than two years old, given that Precise itself was released
nearly two years ago.

In case you're unaware of it, please see:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates

for the policy regarding pushing updates to stable releases. If there's
a specific bug to be fixed, we can do that if somebody prepares the
SRU justification and a suitable minimal patch to packaging (eg. a quilt
patch).

> Recommend you release a later version to LTS.

This is unlikely under the SRU policy, but please see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBackports for an alternative option.

Robie