Re: Bug#852395: unblock: gssproxy/0.5.1-2
On 04/02/17 10:50, Niels Thykier wrote:
> Control: tags -1 moreinfo
>
> CC'ing the maintainer of nfs-common and the reporter of #848306.
>
> Robbie Harwood:
>> Package: release.debian.org
>> Severity: normal
>> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
>> Usertags: unblock
>>
>> Please unblock package gssproxy
>>
>> gssproxy has been 10 days in unstable, and allowing it to migrate will fix
>> bug#848306 (severity: important) in nfs-common. gssproxy is a new package in
>> unstable (so no debdiff is included), and would have made the freeze had I not
>> made a mistake documenting copyright.
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> unblock gssproxy/0.5.1-2
>>
>> [...]
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for bringing this up.
>
> Is this migration from rpc.svcgssd to gssproxy so important (release
> critical) that it ought to be granted an exception? And if so, why is it
> that important (despite #848306 not being release critical)?
Upstream is not really supporting rpc.svcgssd any more, they actually
disabled it in the build so people can still have it as a transitional
measure in stretch.
People shouldn't be using it in any new installations. Offering them
gssproxy is a very sensible thing to do.
Regards,
Daniel
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