Comment 2 for bug 41076

On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 11:01:47AM -0000, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Berge Schwebs Bjørlo writes ("[Bug 41076] GSSAPI unavailable, missing library"):
> > The file missing is apparantly /usr/lib/libgssapi.so, available in
> > heimdal-dev. A workaround is to install the package heimdal-dev.
> I don't think it's wrong that you have to install a Kerberos package
> for Kerberos to be supported, surely ? If there is a bug it's that
> the .so is in the -dev package, I think.

That is good point. Perhaps the bug should be filed against heimdal-dev
instead. I'm not quite sure where the .so-file should reside, though.
heimdal-clients, perhaps?

> > IMHO, /usr/lib/libgssapi.so should be distributed with the firefox
> > package, or firefox should depend on heimdal-dev (but it won't make too
> > much sense to require development libraries for regular run-time usage).
> firefox works quite fine without heimdal-dev, except for the Kerberos
> functionality, so I think the dependency would be wrong.

Agreed, it works great without (except for GSSAPI-stuff, obviously). But
still, Kerberos support in the browser would be splendid to have
out-of-the-box. Debian previously did ship Firefox with GSSAPI-support, and
has an open bug on it,
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=344835. Mozilla recognises
it as a bug as well: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=321514

Cheers,
Berge

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