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

[Love Hörnquist Åstrand]

Steve Langasek <vorlon at debian.org> writes:

> 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?

Less and less. Heimdal 0.7.x supports KDC servicing kerberos 4 requests w/o
linking to a kerberos 4 lib. So for the KDC end, there are no reason what
so ever to require Kerberos 4.

Love

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