Please backport memcached-1.4.5

[Marcus Bointon]

The memcached people are very anti building from source (though it does work). Current Ubuntu package is 1.4.2. Since that release memcache has added SASL authentication and fixed several bugs, including a buffer overflow. 1.4.5 is the standard package in Maverick.

[Clint Byrum (clint-fewbar)]

I had no trouble building and testing v1.4.5-1ubuntu2 on Lucid AMD64. Attached binary package.

[Iain Lane (laney)]

Hey,

Thanks for the request. I just took a look at this as part of backports-revival... Would it be possible to backport ubuntu1 from maverick instead? Otherwise ubuntu2 would have to be backported to all intervening releases to provide a proper upgrade path.

Also, there are a few reverse depends — what testing have you done with those?

(lucid-amd64)root@chicken:/home/laney# apt-cache rdepends memcached
memcached
Reverse Depends:
  mediawiki
  collectd-core
  typo3-dummy
  tilecache
  python-memcache
  mediawiki
  lighttpd-mod-trigger-b4-dl
  lighttpd-mod-cml
  libmemcached2
  libmemcache0
  libcache-memcached-perl
  gearman-job-server
  collectd-core
  chronicle

[James Grant (james-lightbox)]

I have a customer using Joomla who is having the same issue, we're using Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS -- a backported 1.4.5 for lucid would be very much appreciated.

here's the joomla forum that lead me to identify the problem:

http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?p=2049813
post #11
which lead to:
http://code.google.com/p/memcached/wiki/ReleaseNotes144
and the identification of the backwards compatibility issue...

Thanks
James