On Mon, 29 Apr 2024 15:53:31 +1000 Brian May <b...@debian.org> wrote:
> I am wondering if maybe kadmin should not be using update-alternatives.
I'm sure that I do want heimdal-clients and krb5-user to be coinstallable.
Maybe not on a KDC host, but I could imagine an administrator's workstation
needing both versions of kadmin (for use against different realms), and
there are also all the other utilities (kinit, klist, etc) to be considered.
[...]
> But I don't think any of this applies for kadmin. It could be very
> confusing if you are kadmin by hand, not realizing you are running the
> wrong command.
What do you propose, then? Removing /usr/bin/kadmin altogether, leaving
only /usr/bin/kadmin.{heimdal,mit} ? Splitting off kadmin to a separate
alternatives group? In either case the heimdal-kdc postinst script needs
to use kadmin.heimdal . If you want to split off the kadmin implementations
into separate, mutually conflicting packages it's a different story, but
my preference is to avoid conflicts.
