Package: ssh-krb5 Version: 1:7.6p1-2 Severity: normal I'd like to remove the ssh-krb5 transitional package, since it's been around since 2006 and we really shouldn't need to keep transitional packages in the archive for over a decade.
However, this isn't quite just a straightforward transitional package with only dependencies: it also has postinst code to enable GSSAPIAuthentication and GSSAPIKeyExchange. When we added this originally in https://bugs.debian.org/390986, Russ (CCed) said: > * openssh-server doesn't enable GSSAPI by default. This is a reasonable > default and ideally should be a debconf prompt, but in the interim, > installing ssh-krb5 needs to result in a GSSAPI-enabled server. We > therefore need a transitional package that will do the right thing in > the configuration. Russ, do you still think this needs to be a debconf prompt? If so we should actually get round to doing it, and it would be less hideously ugly now that openssh-server uses ucf. Thanks, -- Colin Watson [[email protected]]
