Re: Intent to orphan krb5-appl*

[Stephen Gallagher]

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On Tue, Jun 20, 2017 at 2:10 PM Robbie Harwood  wrote:
Hi,

I am orphaning krb5-appl in Fedora in the hopes that it will be retired.

These packages will likely be officially deprecated upstream soon, and
probably should not be used in most cases anyway.  It contains legacy
kerberized utilities, like rsh.  There are no packages which depend
them.  There have been no changes to this package in Fedora since 2013,
and no new capabilities upstream since 2010 when it branched from the
mainline krb5 distribution.

I would strongly prefer that these be allowed to fade away in order to
further discourage their use in keeping with what other distributions
have done.

Thanks,
- --Robbie (krb5 maintainer)


Sounds to me like rather than orphaning and waiting for retirement,
this would be a candidate for an F27 Change Proposal where we kill it
off explicitly. (This has the added bonus of providing precedent for
saying "no" if someone decided to try to resurrect this package.)
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