Package: heimdal-clients Version: 1.6~rc2+dfsg-9 Severity: important Dear Maintainer,
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. However, installing heimdal-clients would force krb5-user to be remove: paul@celebrimbor:~$ sudo apt-get --dry-run install heimdal-clients Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libhdb9-heimdal libkadm5clnt7-heimdal libkadm5srv8-heimdal libkafs0-heimdal libotp0-heimdal libsl0-heimdal Suggested packages: heimdal-docs heimdal-kcm The following packages will be REMOVED: krb5-user The following NEW packages will be installed: heimdal-clients libhdb9-heimdal libkadm5clnt7-heimdal libkadm5srv8-heimdal libkafs0-heimdal libotp0-heimdal libsl0-heimdal 0 upgraded, 7 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Remv krb5-user [1.12.1+dfsg-19+deb8u1] Inst libhdb9-heimdal (1.6~rc2+dfsg-9 Debian:8.2/stable [amd64]) Inst libkadm5clnt7-heimdal (1.6~rc2+dfsg-9 Debian:8.2/stable [amd64]) Inst libkadm5srv8-heimdal (1.6~rc2+dfsg-9 Debian:8.2/stable [amd64]) Inst libkafs0-heimdal (1.6~rc2+dfsg-9 Debian:8.2/stable [amd64]) Inst libotp0-heimdal (1.6~rc2+dfsg-9 Debian:8.2/stable [amd64]) Inst libsl0-heimdal (1.6~rc2+dfsg-9 Debian:8.2/stable [amd64]) Inst heimdal-clients (1.6~rc2+dfsg-9 Debian:8.2/stable [amd64]) Conf libhdb9-heimdal (1.6~rc2+dfsg-9 Debian:8.2/stable [amd64]) Conf libkadm5clnt7-heimdal (1.6~rc2+dfsg-9 Debian:8.2/stable [amd64]) Conf libkadm5srv8-heimdal (1.6~rc2+dfsg-9 Debian:8.2/stable [amd64]) Conf libkafs0-heimdal (1.6~rc2+dfsg-9 Debian:8.2/stable [amd64]) Conf libotp0-heimdal (1.6~rc2+dfsg-9 Debian:8.2/stable [amd64]) Conf libsl0-heimdal (1.6~rc2+dfsg-9 Debian:8.2/stable [amd64]) Conf heimdal-clients (1.6~rc2+dfsg-9 Debian:8.2/stable [amd64]) paul@celebrimbor:~$ >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. Cheers, Paul. -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.2 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
