Ubuntu
krb5 package

  1. Bug #562261
  2. Comment #1

Comment 1 for bug 562261

Revision history for this message
Mathias Gug (mathiaz) wrote : Re: [Bug 562261] [NEW] Sync krb5 1.8.1+dfsg-2 (main) from Debian unstable (main)

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 12:56:09PM -0000, Sam Hartman wrote:
>
> Changelog entries since current lucid version 1.8+dfsg~alpha1-7ubuntu1:
>
> krb5 (1.8.1+dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=high
>
> * New upstream release
> * Fixes significant ABI incompatibility between Heimdal and MIT in the
> init_creds_step API; backward incompatible change in the meaning of
> the flags API. Since this was introduced in 1.8 and since no better
> solution was found, it's felt that getting 1.8.1 out everywhere that
> had 1.8 very promptly is the right approach. Otherwise software build
> against 1.8 will be broken in the future.

Does this mean that some packages will have to be rebuilt against 1.8.1? When
was the change introduced (considering that the current version in Ubuntu is
1.8+dfsg~alpha1-7ubuntu1)?

Could you outline (provide a diff) of what was changed exactly?

Thanks,

  status incomplete
  importance high

--
Mathias Gug
Ubuntu Developer http://www.ubuntu.com