On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 10:08:35AM +0100, Martin Pitt wrote: > 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 It's horribly old, out of date, and broken security-wise 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. The heimdal package in unstable already conflicts with krb4, which is a source of fresh RC bugs on it. The only remaining issue is for cyrus-sasl2 to rebuild without krb4, then it can be dropped, IIRC. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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