Sebastian Pipping <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Speaking as one of the former maintainers of openssh-krb5 (for a brief >> period near the end of its life), I don't think this is a great idea. >> Maintaining a separate forked copy of the ssh code base in another >> package is painful from a security standpoint, and managing the shared >> configuration and conflicts and whatnot can be rather horrific. > I thought of it as a confliciting package sharing the same config > files. Right. That's how we did ssh-krb5 for quite a while. It unfortunately turned out to be a major hassle and pain, and it was with much rejoicing that we got rid of the split for the etch release. I think we're all a bit gun-shy about going down the same path again. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
