Bug#334632: [Pkg-openssl-devel] Re: Bug#334632: FTBFS: Crypto library used by krb4 lacks features required by Kerberos 5

[Steve Langasek]

On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 02:38:08PM +0200, Love Hörnquist Åstrand wrote:

> Kurt Roeckx <kurt at roeckx.be> writes:

> > On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 09:11:18PM +1000, Brian May wrote:

> >> So, if this is correct (my guess is you are correct), does this mean
> >> this bug is an upstream bug in Heimdal and not a bug in openssl?

> >> I read bug report #333101 yesterday
> >> <URL:http://bugs.debian.org/333101/>, but it didn't convince me it is
> >> not an openssl bug, as this problem didn't occur with the previous
> >> version of openssl.

> > No, I think this is something we should fix in openssl.  As
> > general rule, each include file should include everything it
> > needs.  But I'll talk to upstream about it.

> I don't think that is generally true. Headerfiles should be allows to have
> requsites.

They should be allowed to have *dependencies*, but these should generally be
#include'd by the header itself rather than requiring consumers of the
header to include other headers first.  So I agree with Kurt that this
should be fixed in openssl.

> Or just stop using Kerberos 4.

A tantalizing suggestion.  I've wished several times already for the krb4
source package to go away, but it's still here. >:)  The only packages in
Debian which build-depend on it are heimdal, and cyrus-sasl2, so it's
obviously not *widely* used, but I don't have any idea how much people might
still be depending on krb4 compatibility support in Heimdal.  Are other
vendors still shipping Heimdal w/ krb4 support enabled?

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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