Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org Usertags: rm
Please remove the heimdal source package from testing. As maintainers, we believe that Heimdal is not in a good enough state to be included in a stable release. There is still some activity in the upstream Git master branch. However: * The last regular release (1.5) was in 2011, last RC was in 2012 * No security releases since Jan 2012, despite various recent security releases for MIT Kerberos since and occasional security releases while Heimdal was active * There is no noticeable QA happening upstream. Tests fail on 32 bit, regressions have been introduced. * Nobody upstream is interested in release management; we have asked about this on the development list multiple times. I have filed bugs against the packages that depend on Heimdal to either switch to building against Heimdal OR MIT or to drop their Heimdal dependencies altogether. -- System Information: Debian Release: stretch/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'testing-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.7.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
