Bug#1068258: RM: libauthen-krb5-perl -- RoQA; dead upstream, RC buggy

Sebastian Ramacher sramacher at debian.org
Tue Apr 2 21:34:03 BST 2024


Package: ftp.debian.org
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: libauthen-krb5-perl at packages.debian.org, sramacher at debian.org
Control: affects -1 + src:libauthen-krb5-perl
User: ftp.debian.org at packages.debian.org
Usertags: remove

>From #1065768:

Russ Allbery wrote:
> Authen::Krb5 has a bunch of stuff that dates from the pre-GSS-API era of
> Kerberos, and there were other things that at one point got me to start
> writing my own version of the same idea (although alas I never finished).
> In theory, one could delete the pieces of the module that try to do things
> that no one should really be doing from Perl and the rest of it remains
> somewhat useful, but given that upstream has archived the project, I would
> go ahead and remove it.

Cheers
-- 
Sebastian Ramacher



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