On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 08:41:55PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > My concern at the time ssh-krb5 was made a transitional package was that, > if you just installed ssh-krb5, you got an ssh server that did not have > GSS-API enabled. That seemed likely to break things. > > Removing the transitional package *entirely* doesn't have the same > problem. People will notice it's an obsolete package, people installing > new systems will discover it doesn't exist, and they'll then have to > install openssh-server, and in that case it makes logical sense that > they'll need to explicitly enable GSS-API. > > I think it's fine to just remove the package. It long ago served its > purpose, and the few remaining people who may be using it as a shortcut > will hopefully be able to figure out the right thing to do.
Thanks for the confirmation. I've removed this in git now for the next upload. -- Colin Watson [[email protected]]
