Comment 3 for bug 41076

Berge Schwebs Bjørlo writes ("[Bug 41076] Re: [Bug 41076] Re: [Bug 41076] GSSAPI unavailable, missing library"):
> 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?

I don't have much knowledge of the heimdal packages, but AFAICT
heimdal-clients is a different source package.

libgssapi1-heimdal contains libgssapi.so.1.4.0; isn't libgssapi.so
just a symlink to that ?

> 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

Urgh, what a mess.

Is the ABI of libgssapi.so stable ? If so then an unversioned name is
fine and should be in the runtime package.

Ian.