[Bug 371765] Re: Please merge krb5 1.7dfsg~beta1-3 (main) from Debian unstable (main)

[Sam Hartman]

Hi.  I'm the Debian maintainer of the krb5 package.  I think that
merging either 1.6.dfsg.4~beta1-13 or doing a sync of unstable to
Ubuntu would be a reasonable course of action.  The 1.7~beta1 packages
are not something I'd ship in a final release: I know of one upstream
patch expected to be in beta2 that will affect interop using a new
feature introduced in 1.7.  However that shouldn't stop you from using
the 1.7 packages since you have months in which to pick up a small
patch.

My personal preference would be to take the 1.7 packages, but I'm not
familiar enough with Ubuntu to have a strong preference.
If you take the 1.7 packages, libzephyr3-krb will become uninstallable, and you'll basically have to accept that the zephyr source package and its dependencies are unusable until the zephyr in Debian experimental is ready for prime time.  (According to Karl Ramm, that's not the case today).
In addition, you will have to rebuild the rdeps of libkrb53, and you should take a look at the bugs I opened on libauthen-krb5-admin-perl today.

I cannot speak at the moment to how this will affect open-likewise.
I'll go look at the diffs to the symbols files and see how bad getting
Likewise is going to be.

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Please merge krb5 1.7dfsg~beta1-3 (main) from Debian unstable (main)
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