In message <aikimiqbmx_oa...@freefall.freebsd.org>, Lexi Winter writes:
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> hi Cy,
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> Cy Schubert:
> > In message <202507241824.56oio88s005...@gitrepo.freebsd.org>, Lexi Winter=
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> > >     UPDATING: Note the Kerberos package rename (c7da9fb90b0b)
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> > Shouldn't this be the other way around? Heimdal is FreeBSD-kerberos while=
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> > MIT is FreeBSD-krb5. I objected to the name change because it could cause=
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> > people to assume they were one in the same.
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> although i understand you objected to D51420, i landed it anyway[0]
> which means the packages are back to their old names and there are
> no more FreeBSD-krb5* packages.
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> let me explain why i did this:
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> - the change to the package names caused friction both inside the
>   project (e.g., it broke the OCI build scripts) and outside the
>   project (according to reports i received from downstream users).
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> - it was not clear there is any advantage to renaming the packages.
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> - due to above i was specifically asked to land this commit by several
>   people, including a pkgbase maintainer, and one of my mentors at the
>   time.
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> - i considered this a reasonable course of action because this restored
>   the previous status quo and undid a change that (as far as i'm aware)
>   hadn't been reviewed by #pkgbase, so in case of doubt, i erred on the
>   side of restoring the previous behaviour.
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> i apologise for reverting your code over your stated objections but now
> that we are back to the previous behaviour, we can discuss whether to
> rename these packages, which i suggest doing via a Phabricator review
> that includes #pkgbase.

No offense taken. I'm ok if those using the packages understand fully.

Do people want /usr/src/krb5 renamed to /usr/src/kerberos5 when Heimdal is 
removed? I'm open to this.


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Cheers,
Cy Schubert <cy.schub...@cschubert.com>
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