To all users of libpam-krb5 on armel

If you would have been disappointed if Lenny would’ve shipped without libpam-krb5_3.11-4_armel.deb, you must know we were this >< close to doing precisely that, thanks to a debatable behavior of the britney implementation in use and some rather unfortunate circumstances. (You can read this #debian-release backlog if you’re interested in the details.)

If we noticed it, it was thanks to the britney2 implementation by Fabio Tranchitella. We’ve been running an instance of it in a separate server for some time, to see if it was ready for production by comparing results between the two britneys. Truth be told, I’ve ignored all those mails since about the freeze started, and today after the last britney run for Lenny I thought: “hey, let’s see what britney2 thinks”.

And that’s what happened.