[Simon Josefsson]
> What if some service depends on the "shishid" service (not likely
> but maybe possible?).

There is no package in debian depending on the existing provides,
according to <URL:http://lintian.debian.org/~pere/test-20091006.log>.

> Is this possible:
> 
> # Provides: shishi-kdc shishid

Yes, this is possible.

> Even if it is possible, and we'd use it, I wonder when it would be safe
> to remove the 'shishid' part.  Keeping 'shishid' in the Provides: may
> result in people starting to use it.  So maybe it is simpler to just
> change 'shishid' to 'shishi-kdc' and deal with any breakage separately
> now rather than later.

I agree that this is a better approach, given that no one depend on
that script at the moment.

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen



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