Around a month ago, I had discussions of a transition to the krb5 package on debian-devel. The steps so far have been something that hasn't broken anything and I believe has been fairly low impact. However I'd like the release team's review for the next part and advice on one of two directions.
Basically, the libkrb53 package is being split and will eventually go away. Upstream is dropping support for the 1980's era Kerberos 4, so I need to drop the krb4 libraries. I've done the library split keeping libkrb53 . However I'd like to move 1.7 into unstable, which means that libkrb53 needs to either go away or be produced by an oldlibs package based off the 1.6 sources. Anything that gets built now will not end up depending on libkrb53, but there are a large number of packages that do depend on libkrb53 in unstable. so, the question is whether we should BIN NMU those packages, or whether I should produce a krb5-1.6 source package to go into oldlibs for a while to keep libkrb53 around. I'm happy to do the oldlibs package especially if it lets me get krb5 1.7 into unstable significantly faster. I'm not happy to maintain the oldlibs package in a stable release; if we create such a package we should expect it to go away say sometime later this year. Unrelatedly, when Kerberos 1.7 goes into unstable, libauthen-krb5-admin-perl will break and require a source patch; I'm happy to coordinate with the maintainers of that package and supply a patch. The dependencies on libkrb53 are attached. Package: alpine Package: aolserver4-nsimap Package: balsa Package: bitstormlite Package: cups-driver-gutenprint Package: cupsddk Package: cupsddk-drivers Package: cvsnt Package: diatheke Package: etpan-ng Package: fetchmail Package: gpredict Package: gtklp Package: gtorrent-viewer Package: heirloom-mailx Package: inn2 Package: ipopd Package: ipsec-tools Package: jp2a Package: kredentials Package: libapache2-mod-auth-kerb Package: libapache2-webauth Package: libauthen-krb5-perl Package: libauthen-krb5-simple-perl Package: libc-client2007b Package: libgnomecups1.0-1 Package: libgssapi-perl Package: libkrb5-dev Package: libkrb5-ruby1.8 Package: libkrb5-ruby1.9 Package: libmail-cclient-perl Package: libneon26 Package: libneon26-gnutls Package: libneon27 Package: libneon27-gnutls Package: libnet-cups-perl Package: libnss-ldap Package: libpam-afs-session Package: libpam-krb5 Package: libpam-pkcs11 Package: libremctl1 Package: libroot5.18 Package: libsasl2-modules-gssapi-mit Package: libsword6 Package: libtinymail-camel-1.0-0 Package: libtunepimp5 Package: libwebauth1 Package: libwfut-0.2-1 Package: libzephyr3-krb Package: lprng Package: mailsync Package: mpop Package: mutt Package: mutt-patched Package: netsurf Package: openssh-client Package: openssh-server Package: pike7.6-core Package: postman Package: python-kerberos Package: python-pycurl Package: python-pycurl-dbg Package: python-remctl Package: racoon Package: remctl-server Package: root-plugin-krb5 Package: root-system-proofd Package: root-system-rootd Package: root-system-xrootd Package: sasl2-bin Package: tla Package: uw-imapd Package: uw-mailutils Package: wfut Package: xpp Package: zephyr-server-krb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
