IIUC an AA needs to demote the "telnet" binary and promote "netkit-telnet" (and "netkit-telnetd") instead. This should restore status quo with src:netkit-telnet being in main and src:inetutils being in universe, like before the rename of binary packages.
(Keeping this bug open as "Triaged" – for now, to show up as an update-excuse bug)
src:inetutils (in universe) contains the 'inetutils-telnet' binary, which "Provides:" telnet.
A "telnet" binary package was provided by src:netkit-telnet (in main) in the past, but this was renamed to "netkit-telnet" as of https:/ /launchpad. net/ubuntu/ +source/ netkit- telnet/ 0.17-48 which makes germinate think there would be a component-mismatch: https:/ /people. canonical. com/~ubuntu- archive/ germinate- output/ ubuntu. kinetic/ all
There's also a transition related to this: https:/ /people. canonical. com/~ubuntu- archive/ transitions/ html/auto- netkit- telnet. html
IIUC an AA needs to demote the "telnet" binary and promote "netkit-telnet" (and "netkit-telnetd") instead. This should restore status quo with src:netkit-telnet being in main and src:inetutils being in universe, like before the rename of binary packages.
(Keeping this bug open as "Triaged" – for now, to show up as an update-excuse bug)