Comment 8 for bug 2037321

The krb5.conf configuration file is produced by src:kerberos-configs and shared between heimdal kerberos and MIT kerberos. Of those, only MIT kerberos has includedir support in a released version. heimdal has it in their git tree[1], but not yet in a release.

Therefore, in order to fully fix this bug, we first need a heimdal package with support for includedir, either by backporting that patch, or waiting for a new upstream heimdal release with that change in it.

That commit is from 2017, so 7 years ago, and hasn't landed in a release yet. The last heimdal upstream release is 7.8, from November 2022. While the git repository is quite active, I can't tell when a new release with this fix will be made.

I added a comment to the debian bug[2] about the availability of the patch[1]. It applies, and since then I have built it in a ppa[3] and quickly tested the feature. It seems to work. It would be best if debian agreed on applying it, then we could all be on the same page.

1. https://github.com/heimdal/heimdal/commit/fe43be85587f834266623adb0ecf2793d212a7ca
2. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=858970
3. https://launchpad.net/~ahasenack/+archive/ubuntu/heimdal-include-support