[Bug 501648] Re: Strange dependencies in "libkrb5-3" (kerberos) package

[Evan Broder]

I don't see how this is a bug. Debian and Ubuntu in general try to
enable as many features of software packages as they can, almost
everything has Kerberos authentication of some form or another as a
feature, and because of how libraries and Debian dependencies work,
anything that /supports/ Kerberos authentication at all will depend on
libkrb5-3, causing them also to be removed when you try to remove
libkrb5-3. The other packages you're seeing removed are cascading broken
dependencies.

You can see, for example, the packages that are specifically being
removed because of the libkrb5-3 dependency:

evan at bester:~$ aptitude search ~i~Dlibkrb5-3
i   cups                            - Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - server  
i A evolution-data-server           - evolution database backend server         
i A libcamel1.2-14                  - The Evolution MIME message handling librar
i A libebook1.2-9                   - Client library for evolution address books
i A libedata-book1.2-2              - Backend library for evolution address book
i A libedataserverui1.2-8           - GUI utility library for evolution data ser
i A libexchange-storage1.2-3        - Client library for accessing Exchange serv
i   libgssapi-krb5-2                - MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - krb5 GSS-
i A libneon27-gnutls                - An HTTP and WebDAV client library (GnuTLS 
i A libsmbclient                    - shared library for communication with SMB/
i   openssh-client                  - secure shell client, an rlogin/rsh/rcp rep
i A samba-common-bin                - common files used by both the Samba server
i   smbclient                       - command-line SMB/CIFS clients for Unix    

They're some pretty core packages.

** Changed in: krb5 (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Strange dependencies in "libkrb5-3" (kerberos) package 
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