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Bug#837728: RM: heimdal/1.7~git20150920+dfsg-4



Hi Emilio,

On Sun, Oct 02, 2016 at 06:28:05PM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote:
> On 14/09/16 01:23, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> The build dependency should prefer MIT kerberos in that case, as sbuild/buildds
> only look at the first alternative.
That is the case.

> Please make those bugs block this one so we can track progress.
I've added them as blockers. There are four still open.

Thanks,

Jelmer

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