Hi! Steve Langasek [2006-01-05 12:06 -0800]: > 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 It's horribly old, out of date, and broken security-wise 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. Nice to hear. In Ubuntu I rebuilt cyrus-sasl2 against heimdal 0.7.1 ages ago without any problems, so it seems that it can die and rest in peace soon. :) Martin -- Martin Pitt http://www.piware.de Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntu.com Debian Developer http://www.debian.org In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?
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