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Re: Oldest RC bugs affecting etch



* Martin Pitt (martin@piware.de) [060105 10:08]:
> Nathanael Nerode [2006-01-05  3:29 -0500]:
> > 281893 -- patched uninstallable bug in libroken16-kerberos4kth
> >   Orphan package and make QA upload?
> 
> Just my 2 cents: Is there any reason why we should keep krb4 in the
> first place? It's horribly old, out of date, and broken security-wise
> years ago. There was not much reason to use krb4 in Sarge or even
> woody, and much less to use it nowadays. IMHO it should just die and
> be removed from the archive eventually.

This is already more or less decided on, and the transition is already
being worked on. There was IIRC one issue with one of the rdepends, but
it will happen in time for etch.


Cheers,
Andi
-- 
  http://home.arcor.de/andreas-barth/



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