Bug#878626: ssh-krb5: Remove obsolete transitional package; replace with debconf prompt?

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

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,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]