It's actually not a local package (it's the PHP 5.2 package from Lenny
that I'm trying to keep around), but that's not really of concern to
most other people. I haven't been able to get the package to rebuild in
a Squeeze environment so I can change the package requirement, but I'm
sure a lot of that is due to my limited experience in rebuilding
packages (especially one as intricate as PHP).
At any rate, I guess there's not much I can do about it. I had though
about rebuilding the krb5 packages, but like you said, I then have to
worry about updating it for security patches. I'm also not crazy about
custom building such a key package.
Thanks.
Justin Pasher
----- Original Message -----
> From: Sam Hartman <hartm...@debian.org>
> Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 22:32:44 -0400
> Subject: Re: Bug#708175: Converting libkrb53 into transitional
package instead of conflicting with libkrb5-3
> To: Justin Pasher <just...@distribion.com>
> CC: 708...@bugs.debian.org, sub...@bugs.debian.org
>
I don't think there's a way to make any changes for this issue in
wheezy.
I understand that you are disappointed because you'd like to use your
local packages.
Debian's policy is to support transitions for one release. That's why
libkrb53 is a dummy package in squeeze; it does nothing there.
The issue is that without a breaks or conflicts, the package will never
get cleaned up or removed; it's fairly standard for transitions to
conflict after a release so that the cruft gets cleaned up.
I think that there's value in cleaning up the old package, and to the
larger community that value is probably greater than supporting local
packages that cannot be built against wheezy.
According to policy/practice, this is not a bug in wheezy.
I'd have no problem dropping all references to libkrb53 from jessie and
sid because the transition through wheezy will get the old package to be
cleaned up.
You could rebuild such a krb5 package on wheezy.
However you need to rebuild for security updates etc.
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