Bug#837728: RM: heimdal/1.7~git20150920+dfsg-4
Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: rm
Please remove the heimdal source package from testing. As maintainers,
we believe that Heimdal is not in a good enough state to be included in
a stable release.
There is still some activity in the upstream Git master branch. However:
* The last regular release (1.5) was in 2011, last RC was in 2012
* No security releases since Jan 2012, despite various recent security
releases for MIT Kerberos since and occasional security releases while Heimdal
was active
* There is no noticeable QA happening upstream. Tests fail on 32 bit,
regressions have been introduced.
* Nobody upstream is interested in release management; we have asked
about this on the development list multiple times.
I have filed bugs against the packages that depend on Heimdal to
either switch to building against Heimdal OR MIT or to drop their
Heimdal dependencies altogether.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
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