Debian Bug report logs - #358480
RM: krb4 -- obsolete

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Brian May <bam@debian.org>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: RM: krb4 -- obsolete

Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2006 08:38:38 +1100

Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal

Mikael asked me to remove krb4 from Debian because he no longer has time:

    Mikael> I'm not maintaining it and I think that all kerberos4
    Mikael> support should be removed from debian because it's
    Mikael> unsecure and the kerberos4kth packages should be removed
    Mikael> from future versions of debian. If you have any discussion
    Mikael> with the mit krb maintainer you can let him know my point
    Mikael> of view and do anything you want with the kerberos4kth
    Mikael> package you want.

It also is obsolete and has release critical bugs.

The only package that depends on krb4 appears to be Arla, it also has release
critical bugs, in Mikael's words:

    Mikael> Arla should need a rebuild against your newer heimdal-dev
    Mikael> package, and when that's done it will probably not depend
    Mikael> on krb4 anymore.

I am about to orphan Arla for Mikael.

I am CCing this to debian-devel in case I made a mistake and somebody still
does use it.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: powerpc (ppc)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-pegasos
Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Message #10 received at 358480-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Debian Archive Maintenance <ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org>

To: 358480-close@bugs.debian.org

Cc: krb4@packages.debian.org, krb4@packages.qa.debian.org

Subject: Bug#358480: fixed

Date: Sat, 01 Apr 2006 17:00:35 -0800

We believe that the bug you reported is now fixed; the following
package(s) have been removed from unstable:

kerberos4kth-clients | 1.2.2-11.3 | alpha, arm, hppa, hurd-i386, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
kerberos4kth-clients-x | 1.2.2-11.3 | alpha, arm, hppa, hurd-i386, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
kerberos4kth-dev | 1.2.2-11.3 | alpha, arm, hppa, hurd-i386, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
kerberos4kth-docs | 1.2.2-11.3 | all
kerberos4kth-kdc | 1.2.2-11.3 | alpha, arm, hppa, hurd-i386, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
kerberos4kth-kip | 1.2.2-11.3 | alpha, arm, hppa, hurd-i386, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
kerberos4kth-servers | 1.2.2-11.3 | alpha, arm, hppa, hurd-i386, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
kerberos4kth-servers-x | 1.2.2-11.3 | alpha, arm, hppa, hurd-i386, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
kerberos4kth-services | 1.2.2-11.3 | all
kerberos4kth-user | 1.2.2-11.3 | all
kerberos4kth-x11 | 1.2.2-11.3 | all
kerberos4kth1 | 1.2.2-11.3 | all
      krb4 | 1.2.2-11.3 | source
libkadm1-kerberos4kth | 1.2.2-11.3 | alpha, arm, hppa, hurd-i386, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
libkafs0-kerberos4kth | 1.2.2-11.3 | alpha, arm, hppa, hurd-i386, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
libkdb-1-kerberos4kth | 1.2.2-11.3 | alpha, arm, hppa, hurd-i386, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
libkrb-1-kerberos4kth | 1.2.2-11.3 | alpha, arm, hppa, hurd-i386, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
libkthacl1-kerberos4kth | 1.2.2-11.3 | alpha, arm, hppa, hurd-i386, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
libotp0-kerberos4kth | 1.2.2-11.3 | alpha, arm, hppa, hurd-i386, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
libroken16-kerberos4kth | 1.2.2-11.3 | alpha, arm, hppa, hurd-i386, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
libsl0-kerberos4kth | 1.2.2-11.3 | alpha, arm, hppa, hurd-i386, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc
libss0-kerberos4kth | 1.2.2-11.3 | alpha, arm, hppa, hurd-i386, i386, ia64, m68k, mips, mipsel, powerpc, s390, sparc

Note that the package(s) have simply been removed from the tag
database and may (or may not) still be in the pool; this is not a bug.
The package(s) will be physically removed automatically when no suite
references them (and in the case of source, when no binary references
it).  Please also remember that the changes have been done on the
master archive (ftp-master.debian.org) and will not propagate to any
mirrors (ftp.debian.org included) until the next cron.daily run at the
earliest.

Packages are never removed from testing by hand.  Testing tracks
unstable and will automatically remove packages which were removed
from unstable when removing them from testing causes no dependency
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Bugs which have been reported against this package are not automatically
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