Re: Major changes to Heimdal in Heimdal 0.3e-5
On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 06:43:20PM +1000, Brian May wrote:
> You overlook the requirement that if Kerberos V4 support is built into
> Heimdal, then Heimdal will depend of kerberos4kth.
>
> I think rather then enabling Kerberos V4 by default, it should be made
> as easy as possible for users to compile their own version of Heimdal
> with krb4 support.
>
> This saves problems having to have manage a krb4 set of Heimdal
> packages and a non-krb4 set of packages in Debian.
Why is depending on kerberos4kth such a horrible situation? Remember,
Policy advises that when a package can be built with an optional
feature, even if it implies an additional dependency, we should do so.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who needs to use krb4 and would like to
have krb5...
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Daniel Jacobowitz Debian GNU/Linux Developer
Monta Vista Software Debian Security Team
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