On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 22:02 -0800, Steve Langasek wrote:
> However, the package could build-depend on libkrb5-dev instead. Or, it
> could drop the build-conflict and build-depend on heimdal-dev, but be fixed
> to not enable support for the deprecated, never-standardized krb4 POP
> protocol.
Kerberos 4 IMAP4 and POP3 authentication has been standardized since
1994 in RFC 1731 and 1734. If I'm not mistaken, though, I think
that the core Kerberos 4 protocols themselves never were officially
standardized. However, I do agree that GSSAPI/Kerberos 5 is to be
preferred and _I_ think that there are other reasons that Kerberos 4
probably should be dropped from Debian.
Then again, I'm not sure of the possible other issues like license
incompatiblities, library name space pollution, threading issues, etc,
that may affect this application, that after all is very complex.
That's also why I initially posted #278242 under Severity wishlist.
There is, however, a popular demand for GSSAPI-savvy applications, that
many of us hope that the Debian Gods recognize... ;-)
-ukh
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