On 04/02/17 10:50, Niels Thykier wrote: > Control: tags -1 moreinfo > > CC'ing the maintainer of nfs-common and the reporter of #848306. > > Robbie Harwood: >> Package: release.debian.org >> Severity: normal >> User: [email protected] >> Usertags: unblock >> >> Please unblock package gssproxy >> >> gssproxy has been 10 days in unstable, and allowing it to migrate will fix >> bug#848306 (severity: important) in nfs-common. gssproxy is a new package in >> unstable (so no debdiff is included), and would have made the freeze had I >> not >> made a mistake documenting copyright. >> >> Thanks. >> >> unblock gssproxy/0.5.1-2 >> >> [...] > Hi, > > Thanks for bringing this up. > > Is this migration from rpc.svcgssd to gssproxy so important (release > critical) that it ought to be granted an exception? And if so, why is it > that important (despite #848306 not being release critical)?
Upstream is not really supporting rpc.svcgssd any more, they actually disabled it in the build so people can still have it as a transitional measure in stretch. People shouldn't be using it in any new installations. Offering them gssproxy is a very sensible thing to do. Regards, Daniel
