>>>>> "Harald" == Harald Braumann <[email protected]> writes:
Harald> Hi, yes, very sad, indeed, especially if the host is only
Harald> reachable via ssh and that breaks.
Agreed. This is not intended to reduce the severity of the problem, but
is advice you may find useful for reducing this sort of thing in the
future. I find that when I upgrade a machine it's worth restarting the
main sshd and then sshing into the machine while I still have a root
shell open just to test for this sort of thing.
Harald> I had libkrb53 installed from lenny and libk5crypto3 from
Harald> sid. Something depended on it and it was set as an
Harald> automatic dependency. On upgrade, that dependency vanished
Harald> and so libk5crypto3 was removed automatically. Now
If you could provide more detail here it would be useful. I'd like to
evaluate whether I made the right tradeoff here and in particular how
likely it is that someone would manage to get into a situation where
they have libk5crypto3 from squeeze without also having something from
squeeze that will keep it installed.
Do you know how you got into a situation where you had libk5crypto3
installed and then later no longer had it?
Harald> I know it's my own fault if I shoot myself in the foot, but
Harald> would you please not hand me a loaded gun with the safety
Harald> released and a broken trigger that can go off any time?
So, I've explained my reasoning. I'm happy to change things if
1) We can find a fix that fixes this problem and allows people to keep
libkrb53 installed
or 2) I discover that my assumptions about how likely this failure is
were off. As I said I realize I'm making a tradeoff here; my assumption
is that especially in a lenny->squeeze upgrade it's going to be fairly
difficult to end up depending on libk5crypto3 without also getting the
rest of the packages. So, information on what people are doing that
creates this situation would be greatly appreciated.
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