On 14/09/16 01:23, Jelmer Vernooij wrote: > 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.
The build dependency should prefer MIT kerberos in that case, as sbuild/buildds only look at the first alternative. Please make those bugs block this one so we can track progress. Thanks, Emilio
