Bug#419420: Heimdal

[Russ Allbery]

Roberto C Sánchez <roberto at connexer.com> writes:
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 08:37:41PM -0500, Dan White wrote:

>> libpq-dev depends on libkrb5-dev, which conflicts with heimdal-dev.

> Ahh.  I am running Etch on my main workstation, and so it was not
> immediately apparent to me.  I wonder if the postgres maintainers would
> consider making theirs MIT | Heimdal?

You can't really do that.  If the PostgreSQL libraries expose any of the
underlying Kerberos libraries, you can't just replace MIT Kerberos with
Heimdal after the fact.  Things won't compile.

(Although a more basic question is why the libpq-dev package depends on
libkrb5-dev, and if it's just libtool transitive dependencies or static
library dependencies or something more useful.)

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>