[OpenAFS] Re: [OpenAFS-devel] 1.6 and post-1.6 OpenAFS branch management and schedule

[Jason Edgecombe]

On 06/15/2010 09:47 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:
>
> * As we've stated for some time, at the point at which we release an
>    OpenAFS 2.0 with rxgk, we intend to deprecate kaserver.  What I believe
>    that should mean is that, in OpenAFS 2.0, we will require passing a flag
>    to configure to build kaserver and all the related code for Kerberos v4
>    support in the tree (kaserver, kas, kpasswd, the PAM modules,
>    tokens.krb, pagsh.krb, klog, klog.krb, and doubtless some other things
>    that we find hiding).  Unless someone steps forward before that time and
>    updates uss to make it useful in a non-kaserver environment, I believe
>    we should disable building of uss at the same time.
>
>    At that time, we will stop building that code for the binary
>    distributions from openafs.org, and I will also stop building the client
>    packages with that code in Debian (Debian never included kaserver).
>
>    We will then remove that code entirely after (at least) a year after
>    2.0 is out, which if we stick with our intended time-based release
>    practice will mean 2.4.
>    

We're using uss in a non-kaserver environment. I know that we could do 
without it, but it's nice to have. If uss weren't available, an 
equivalent tool would need to be available.

Jason