> The proliferation of ident daemons (midentd, oidentd, pidentd) in > Debian necessitates the introduction of a virtual package that these > packages can provide and conflict with (since you can only > [reasonably] run one ident daemon at once). While "ident-daemon" > seems more intuitive, the name ident-server is more consistent with > existing conventions for daemons. > > Per the virtual package policy, this is CC'd to debian-devel.
While this is fine to satisfy dependencies, the packages would be more useful if they provided a standard interface via the alternatives mechanism.