Debian package comparison

Sam Hartman hartmans at MIT.EDU
Sun Dec 4 10:35:00 EST 2005


>>>>> "Russ" == Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

    Russ> debian-default-enctype

    Russ>     Changes the default KDC enctype to DES from triple DES.
    Russ> I don't know/remember the history of this one.

That would probably be a mismerge in the wrong direction so it should
go away.

    Russ> kprop-service-name

    Russ>     Patch from Sam from 2001 that makes kpropd and kprop
    Russ> default to a hard-coded kprop port if the service wasn't
    Russ> found.  I didn't find this one in the Kerberos RT, but
    Russ> wasn't sure if Sam had some reason for not already having
    Russ> this one submitted as a bug.  (Or maybe I just missed it.)

Should be submitted upstream.

    Russ> krb4-bind-des425

    Russ>     This changes the linkage of libkrb4 to bind tightly
    Russ> (-Wl,-Bsymbolic) to libdes425 so that OpenSSL DES libraries
    Russ> won't interpose.  My guess is that this is no longer
    Russ> necessary now that everything uses symbol versioning, but
    Russ> I'm not positive.

Can go away.

    Russ> krlogin-alpha

    Russ>     #undefs TIOCGLTC at the top of krlogin.  I'm not sure of
    Russ> the history of this or if it's the right fix in general,
    Russ> rather than just on Linux systems.

this is almost certainly only appropriat appropriate for Debian.

    Russ> telnet-help

    Russ>     Another patch applied by Sam in 2001 that I wasn't sure
    Russ> the status of.  It changes the semantics of "telnet help" so
    Russ> that it attempts to connect to a host named "help" rather
    Russ> than prints an incorrect usage message.

should go upstream.


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