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Bug#1070031: heimdal-kdc: fails to install if /usr/bin/kadmin is not Heimdal kadmin

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Ryan Tandy <ryan@nardis.ca> writes:

> # update-alternatives --display kadmin
> kadmin - auto mode
>   link best version is /usr/bin/kadmin.mit
>   link currently points to /usr/bin/kadmin.mit
>   link kadmin is /usr/bin/kadmin
>   slave kadmin.1.gz is /usr/share/man/man1/kadmin.1.gz
> /usr/bin/kadmin.heimdal - priority 23
>   slave kadmin.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/kadmin.heimdal.1.gz
> /usr/bin/kadmin.mit - priority 30
>   slave kadmin.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/kadmin.mit.1.gz

I am wondering if maybe kadmin should not be using update-alternatives.

I think it is policy - although I can't find it right now - that update
alternatives should only be used for similar commands, i.e. similiar
command line parsing, does the same thing, etc.

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.

Any thoughts?

Maybe I should ask the MIT kerberos maintainer for opinions here also.
-- 
Brian May @ Debian

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Bug#1070031: heimdal-kdc: fails to install if /usr/bin/kadmin is not Heimdal kadmin Ryan Tandy <ryan@nardis.ca> - 2024-04-29 01:10 +0200
  Bug#1070031: heimdal-kdc: fails to install if /usr/bin/kadmin is not Heimdal kadmin Brian May <bam@debian.org> - 2024-04-29 08:00 +0200

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