Re: : Question regarding actions to take on --purge of a package.
Brian May <bam@debian.org> writes:
> Personally (and I realize others do disagree), my feeling is:
>
> - Kerberos 4 is obsolete and should not be used anymore. MIT no longer
> support it. There is only one mainstream application that still
> requires Kerberos 4: AFS. It could be argued that AFS is now obsolete,
> but AFAIK, no up-to-date open source implementation of DCE/DFS exists
> :-(. Eventually, I have been told, Arla (open source AFS) will
> support Kerberos 5.
AFS itself will itself be released under yet-another-open-source-license, the
IBM Public License. There are people looking packaging it for debian already.
AFS may actually be possible to port to krb5 however there are other
applications such as zephyr that will never be. Krb4 is really a different
protocol entirely with a completely different source base. It's not an older
version.
> - MIT and Heimdal are mostly[1] drop in replacements, and it would be
> OK if they conflicted.
Yes.
> SASL support in Debian would mean we could support both
> implementations of Kerberos 5, and just use a different SASL module
> for each one.
I'm skeptical.
> However, now the subject has changed considerable from what is in the
> subject line...
Indeed the original query was related to my updating the krb4 shared library
package for a new soname but sharing a config file, not upgrading to heimdal.
Heimdal and MIT Krb5 were completely unrelated to the original issue.
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greg
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