Please reintroduce libauthen-krb5-perl and libauthen-krb5-admin-perl

[Yadd]

On 4/10/25 09:30, Christopher Odenbach wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I recently discovered that the two kerberos related perl packages
> 
> libauthen-krb5-perl
> libauthen-krb5-admin-perl
> 
> have been dismissed from Debian as the first one did not compile anymore 
> due to compiler errors, and the second one has a hard dependancy on the 
> first one. The upstream source of the first package was also dead.
> 
> As we need both packages I tried to fix the problem and succeeded. 
> Because the upstream source was dead I contacted the last perl 
> maintainer Ioan Rogers if he would like me to take over - he did.
> 
> So now I am the maintainer of Authen::Krb5, the new release 1.906 has 
> been uploaded to CPAN yesterday. It contains the last debian patch from 
> Ansgar and my patches to compile cleanly on Debian.
> 
> So basically a
> 
> dh-make-perl --cpan Authen::Krb5 --build
> 
> will build a new and fresh debian package with very little manual work 
> to do (changelog, ...).
> 
> I would be very glad if the new package would find its way back into 
> debian, and then the also dismissed libauthen-krb5-admin-perl as well.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Christopher
Hi Christopher,

both packages are back into Debian/unstable.

Cheers,
Xavier