On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 06:22:00AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > One possible fix: move kadmin in its own package and install it as
> > /usr/bin/kadmin-{heimdal,krb5}.
> Renaming the kadmin binary is not something I'm willing to do.  That would
> break tons and tons of user software.
> We could use alternatives, but as you say, they don't have the same
> interface.  I'm not sure if alternatives is appropriate in this case.

The policy mandates that one (or, if no consensus is reached, both)
programs needs to be renamed in such a case (see ยง10.1). But in this
case the functionality and the commandline interface should be similar
enough, both administers kerberos, to use alternatives.

Bastian

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