gsoap doesn't authenticate in 12.04LTS

[Robie Basak]

David,

On Thu, Dec 05, 2013 at 10:06:48PM +1030, David Newall wrote:
> I'd agree with you about how reasonable the age of the version of
> gsoap is if it was for 12.10, but for 12.04, the current long term
> support version, to have such an old version that doesn't work
> seems, well, insupportable.  It would be different if LTS's version

12.04 froze for Debian imports on 12 January 2012. By definition of what
12.04 is supposed to be the version of gsoap on 12.04 is not
unreasonably old. The usual way of getting a newer version is to update
to a newer release. By definition, if you choose to use an older
release, you can expect to get an older version.

> worked, because then there'd be a risk of a downside in releasing
> any random newer version, but it doesn't and there isn't.  As

If it is the case that the package is without doubt completely broken
for all Ubuntu users of 12.04 under all possible scenarios, such that
there are definitely no existing users of the package on 12.04 then you
may have a case to make to the SRU team to make an exception here. But
I'm not sure there would be any point chasing this, given that the
backports repository exists for this purpose.

> recently as six months ago Ubuntu's version was eighteen months old.
> That's hardly bleeding edge; it's cadaverous edge.

Again, this is true by definition of what the LTS release is. If you
need a newer version, you should use the latest release of Ubuntu
(13.10), or get the package backported and added to the backports
repository (caveat a possible exception above).

> A backport would be good.  I think that's what I was suggesting.
> 
> It took real programming skills to see why my old software stopped
> working on my new server.  Google was not my friend.  I found the
> fault, fixed it (for me) and reported it for the next person. That's
> probably as much as I reasonably can do.  I hope an answer can now
> be found via search engines.  Mind you, logic suggests that gsoap is
> as popular on Ubuntu as kvegelop, so the other person who uses it
> probably already knows!

Thank you for investigating and documenting this. As someone who has an
interest in this package, is there any chance you can do some validation
on the current development version, so that we can ensure that the
package works better when Trusty (the next LTS, expected in April) is
released?

Thanks,

Robie