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