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Requirements

1. Availability: http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/l/libapache-mod-auth-kerb; available for all supported architectures.

2. Rationale:

   • https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerPackageReview

3. Security:

   • No recent CVE entries.

   • No recent Secunia history entries.

   • No binaries running as root or suid/sgid.
   • No daemons running.
   • Used with Apache which authenticates users in a kerberos realm.
   • No source code review.

4. Quality assurance:

   • The apache module has to be configured against a kerberos realm otherwise the package wont work correctly.
   • No debconf questions asked.

   • http://bugs.debian.org/src:libapache-mod-auth-kerb: It doesn't look like it can authenticate against multiple realms (#457341)

   • Maintenance in Debian is calm.

   • Upstream is calm.

   • Upstream bug trackeris calm

   • Does not need special hardware.

5. Standards compliance:

   • FHS compliant.

   • Debian Policy compliant.

   • Debian library packaging guide standards compliant

   • Uses debhelper with dpatch.

6. Dependencies:

   • debhelper, autotools-dev, libkrb5-dev, autoconf, apache2-threaded-dev, dpatch, krb5-config
   • All in main except for krb5-config which is in universe.

Reviewers

MIR bug: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libapache-mod-auth-kerb/+bug/187021

ChuckShort