Re: Interest in packaging GNU Shishi and GNU Generic Security Service?

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

I have created rough Debian packages for Shishi:

http://josefsson.org/shishi/debian/

and I am looking for a sponsor who would be willing to help me improve
them and eventually upload the packages into main.

I can put the debian/ files into CVS and give write access to
sponsors, if that would help accelerate the process.

IIRC, Russ earlier expressed interest in helping as a co-maintainer in
a collaborate effort to maintain Debian packages for Shishi.  Russ,
are you still interested?

Thanks,
Simon

Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:

> Hi.  I'd like to get in contact with someone who would be interested
> in creating and supporting Debian packages for my Kerberos 5
> implementation, and its related GSS-API library.  Web pages are
> available at:
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/shishi/
> http://www.gnu.org/software/gss/
>
> Shishi and GSS can be used by GNU SASL, GNU Mailutils, Fetchmail, Curl
> and maybe other projects.
>
> It would be good if you are familiar with MIT Kerberos or Heimdal in
> general, and their Debian packages in particular.
>
> One advantage with my Kerberos 5 implementation compared to
> MIT/Heimdal is that it support Kerberos 5 over TLS, which means that
> you can use X.509 or (work in progress) OpenPGP keys, rather than
> passwords to get a Kerberos ticket.
>
> Thanks,
> Simon