Hi Emilio, On Sun, Oct 02, 2016 at 06:28:05PM +0200, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: > 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. That is the case.
> Please make those bugs block this one so we can track progress. I've added them as blockers. There are four still open. Thanks, Jelmer
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