Coming back to this old issue, current CVS seems builds fine with heimdal-dev.
With the diff attached (where I add encryption support as well) I can checkout a :gserver: repository using a krb5 ticket, obtained through kinit. Works for me, that's all I can say! Cheers, JD.
diff -Naur cvs-1.12.9.orig/debian/control cvs-1.12.9/debian/control --- cvs-1.12.9.orig/debian/control 2006-04-05 10:16:08.000000000 +0200 +++ cvs-1.12.9/debian/control 2006-04-05 10:16:56.000000000 +0200 @@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ Section: devel Priority: optional Maintainer: Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4.1.16), zlib1g-dev, texi2html, groff, texinfo, bison, dbs, automake1.7, libpam0g-dev, autotools-dev -Build-Conflicts: heimdal-dev, kerberos4kth-dev, libkrb5-dev +Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 4.1.16), zlib1g-dev, texi2html, groff, texinfo, bison, dbs, automake1.7, libpam0g-dev, autotools-dev, heimdal-dev +Build-Conflicts: kerberos4kth-dev, libkrb5-dev Standards-Version: 3.6.1.0 Package: cvs diff -Naur cvs-1.12.9.orig/debian/rules cvs-1.12.9/debian/rules --- cvs-1.12.9.orig/debian/rules 2006-04-05 10:16:08.000000000 +0200 +++ cvs-1.12.9/debian/rules 2006-04-05 10:16:39.000000000 +0200 @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ --sysconfdir=/etc \ --mandir=/usr/share/man \ --infodir=/usr/share/info \ - --without-krb4 --without-gssapi \ + --without-krb4 --with-gssapi --enable-encryption \ --with-editor=/usr/bin/sensible-editor \ --enable-rootcommit --with-external-zlib \ --enable-pam --with-hardcoded-pam-service-name=cvs
