On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 11:54:52PM -0500, Nathanael Nerode wrote: > From bjorn.haxx.se: > ># Updating krb4 makes 1 packages uninstallable on alpha: libpam-heimdal > ># Updating krb4 makes 3 packages uninstallable due to depending on > >krb4: arla, heimdal, cyrus-sasl2 > So it looks like libpam-heimdal is the only thing preventing the > arla/heimdal/cyrus-sasl2/krb4 group from going in. (Of course they have > to wait for heimdal to build on the the three arches whose buildds are > still down, too. And I could be missing an arch-specific issue.) > I don't use it myself. :-) > However, I'm guessing one of two things is true: > * It doesn't break when krb4, heimdal, and cyrus-sasl2 go in together, > and the scripts are just overly conservative. > This would be the case if it currently works in unstable. > * It does break. In this case it must also be broken in unstable. > (libpam-heimdal hasn't been uploaded since 2002.) In this case it > probably just needs a rebuild. Although if it breaks, it's been broken > for a while; since its maintainer also maintains the heimdal package, > and libpam-heimdal has no open bugs against it, that would seem > surprising and unlikely to me. > I'm not comfortable installing and testing it to find out which is true. > Maybe someone just happens to know, of course. A look at the Packages file for alpha should be enough to show which is the case: Package: libpam-heimdal Priority: optional Section: net Installed-Size: 104 Maintainer: Brian May <bam@debian.org> Architecture: alpha Version: 1.0-16 Depends: libc6.1 (>= 2.3.1-1), libkrb5-17-heimdal (>= 0.4e-22) It depends on libkrb5-17-heimdal, which is provided by both the testing and unstable versions of the heimdal package. This is a bug in the bjorn.haxx.se output, which failed to detect the transitive relationship: hinting in krb4, heimdal, and cyrus-sasl2 together should be sufficient to keep everything happy (once heimdal is again a candidate). -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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