Gnu sasl is an implementation of the simple authentication and security layer framework and a few common sasl mechanisms. sasl is used by network servers (e.g., imap, smtp) to request authentication from clients, and in clients to authenticate against servers.

this package contains detached debugging information. most people will not need this package. it is provided primarily to provide a backtrace with names in a debugger, this makes it somewhat easier to interpret core dumps. gdb will find this debug information automatically.