icann-rdap-cli declares a Conflict with rdap. Policy section 10.1
requires that this is reserved for cases where different packages
implement the same functionality. However, rdap behaves quite
differently between those two packages. If you compare --help output of
the too implementations, you immediately observe that there is little
overlap in options. Even for shared functionality, the options are
different (--base-url vs --bs-url, --timeout-secs vs --timeout, -O
gtld-whois vs --whois, --query-type vs --type). It is fairly obvious
that these do not provide the same functionality.

It also is clear that this kind of bug is contentious. For instance, a
similar conflict about rename (util-linux vs perl) was brought to the
CTTE as #966468. There, it was ruled that neither the Conflict nor
alternatives mechanism could be used. I argue that this case is very
similar.

Helmut

clone -1
reassign -1 rdap
retitle -1 renaming /usr/bin/rdap

Hi,

given that icann-rdap is the reference implementation of rdap from
ICANN, and given that update-alternatives doesn't make sense here.. I
think icann-rdap-cli should keep /usr/bin/rdap.

Can you please rename /usr/bin/rdap in rdap to something like
/usr/bin/rdap-go or something?

Regards,
Daniel

Hi,

how do we want to solve this? I'd like to get it fixed in order to get
icann-rdap-cli into testing.

Regards,
Daniel

tag 1133988 + pending
thanks

Hi Antoine,

since I haven't heard back from you in a while, I'm going ahead with the
attached patch, uploaded to delayed 10.

Regards,
Daniel

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
rdap, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1133988@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org> (supplier of updated rdap package)

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Format: 1.8
Date: Sun, 10 May 2026 09:36:39 +0200
Source: rdap
Architecture: source
Version: 0.9.1-3.1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Go Packaging Team <team+pkg-go@tracker.debian.org>
Changed-By: Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>
Closes: 1133988
Changes:
 rdap (0.9.1-3.1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Non-maintainer upload.
   * Renaming rdap to go-rdap to solve conflict with icann-rdap-cli
     (Closes: #1133988).
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