On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 12:03:47PM +1000, Anibal Monsalve Salazar wrote: >http://linux-nfs.org/pipermail/nfsv4/2007-September/006695.html > >The following message belongs to the thread listed above. > >>Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 18:57:24 -0400 >>From: Kevin Coffman <kwc@citi.umich.edu> >>To: heimdal-discuss@sics.se, Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> >>Cc: nfsv4@linux-nfs.org >>Subject: Re: conflict between heimdal and umich gssapi library and their consequences >> >>On 9/1/07, Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu> wrote: >>> >>>I'm fairly sure that for right now Debian is just living with the problem >>>and conflicting the libraries. That makes Heimdal almost unusable in >>>Debian since the UMich GSS-API indirection layer gets pulled in by the >>>NFSv4 support, which is part of standard. >>> >>>I'm still of the opinion that UMich was at fault here and they need to >>>rename their GSS-API library to something else. Heimdal was using that >>>library name first, and regardless of how much more "generic" they think >>>their indirection layer is, taking a shared library name that's already in >>>use is frankly rather rude. Picking a different SONAME version to start >>>with clearly isn't sufficient, as we now see. >> >>I regret any inconvenience our libgssapi library has caused. We used >>the obvious name and had no malicious intent. >> >>I will rename our library to libgssglue which will require a change in >>librpcsecgss and will require nfs-utils to be reconfigured and >>recompiled (no source changes required). I will put out new versions >>on Tuesday. > >I'll package libgssglue and change nfs-utils to depend on libgssglue. Please remove libgssglue from testing. I have filed #446077 to remove it from unstable. >>K.C. >>_______________________________________________ >>NFSv4 mailing list >>NFSv4@linux-nfs.org >>http://linux-nfs.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nfsv4 > >On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 12:51:13PM +1000, Brian May wrote: >>So in summary, what is the verdict? >> >>I am inclined to add a non-versioned conflicts for now, as I suspect >>it might be a while before this can be solved in a better way. >> >>Also: No, I don't want to maintain a patch in Heimdal that renames the >>library. >> >>If upstream could be convinced to rename the library that would be OK >>though. > >Upstream decided to rename the UMich libgssapi library. > >>-- >>Brian May <bam@snoopy.debian.net> > >Best Regards, > >Aníbal Monsalve Salazar >-- >http://v7w.com/anibal
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