Bug#419420: Heimdal

[Roberto C. Sánchez]

On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 06:56:38PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> 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.
> 
I guess I wasn't clear.  I meant to see if it was possible for them to
do something similar to what we are doing (with a second minimal source
package for the Heimdal implementation).

> (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.)
> 
It is probably best to find this out first.

Regards,

-Roberto

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Roberto C. Sánchez
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