Re: Proposal: remove krb5-appl (rlogin, rsh, telnet, ftp with krb5 support)

[Brian May <brian@microcomaustralia.com.au>]

On 24 January 2014 04:14, Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer@samba.org> wrote:

> My proposal is to drop the package from the archive, but I wanted to

> give others a chance to shout out that I'm wrong and that there's some
> compelling use-case I've missed.
> If someone can convince me that the packages are useful I'm happy to
> spend some effort on them.
> However, I don't think that's the case.

FWIW we are currently having the same discussion for the Heimdal packages.

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.encryption.kerberos.heimdal.general/7608

I think these old binaries could make the entire source package and all binary packages it builds look bad, if for example somebody discovers a serious security issue. Which is very possible, as I don't think anyone is really interested in the source code any more.

So I vote that this stuff should be removed.

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Brian May <brian@microcomaustralia.com.au>