Domenico Andreoli <cavok_at_debian.org> writes:

> i'm not a kerberos guru, i never used it and probably i will never be
> interested in it. i added this package only after a debian user asked
> for GSSAPI support in curl (FYI bug #241553).

Got it. :-)

> anybody knows if curl will modify its behaviour switching to MIT krb5?

It oughtn't, though it looks like you need to edit debian/rules in
addition to debian/control:

diff -u curl-7.14.0/debian/control curl-7.14.0/debian/control
--- curl-7.14.0/debian/control
+++ curl-7.14.0/debian/control
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 Priority: optional
 Maintainer: Domenico Andreoli <cavok_at_debian.org>
 Uploaders: Matthias Klose <doko_at_debian.org>
-Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 3.0.0), autotools-dev, binutils (>= 2.14.90.0.7), libssl-dev, zlib1g-dev, stunnel, heimdal-dev [!hurd-i386], libidn11-dev, groff-base, libdb4.2-dev
+Build-Depends: debhelper (>> 3.0.0), autotools-dev, binutils (>= 2.14.90.0.7), libssl-dev, zlib1g-dev, stunnel, libkrb5-dev [!hurd-i386], libidn11-dev, groff-base, libdb4.2-dev
 Standards-Version: 3.6.1
 
 Package: curl
diff -u curl-7.14.0/debian/rules curl-7.14.0/debian/rules
--- curl-7.14.0/debian/rules
+++ curl-7.14.0/debian/rules
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
 
 ifeq (${DO_GSSAPI},yes)
         mkdir -p debian/build-gssapi
- cd debian/build-gssapi && ../../configure ${CONFIGURE_ARGS} --with-gssapi-includes=/usr/include --with-gssapi-libs=/usr/lib
+ cd debian/build-gssapi && ../../configure ${CONFIGURE_ARGS} --with-gssapi=/usr
 endif
         
         touch configure-stamp

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