On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 11:03:43AM +0100, Paul Millar wrote:
> I am trying to install the heimdal-clients package because it contains some
> "kerberised" applications that do not exist in the MIT equivalent package:
> krb5-user.
Are you referring to kftp ? That's the only application for which this is the
case as far as I can tell.

> >From manual dry-run installing each of the dependencies, I see that only the
> heimdal-clients package requires the removal of the krb5-user package.
> 
> I don't understand the reason for requiring krb5-user package to be removed: 
> in
> case of conflicting names, alternatives (as provided by dpkg) allows multiple
> instances to exist concurrently.
> 
> I've classified this bug as IMPORTANT, but it could also be classified as
> WISHLIST, depending on one's point-of-view.
I've changed the severity to wishlist.

Cheers,

Jelmer

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