[Bug 480877] [NEW] Incorrect Names for ils and mactime

[mikelococo]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: sleuthkit

Distro: Jaunty 9.04
Package: Sleuthkit 2.52-1

Expected Result:
The Sleuth Kit, as distributed from sleuthkit.org, contains tools called 'ils' and 'mactime'.  I had expected these tools to be present and in the executable search path.

Actual Result:
These tools have been renamed to 'ils-sleuthkit' and 'mactime-sleuthkit', which breaks any user-scripts from non-Ubuntu environments that depend on those tools and is confusing.

Steps to reproduce:
Install tct and sleuthkit and run ils --help or mactime --help.  Note that the tct executables are run.

Additional Information:
I presume that the tools have been renamed to avoid conflict with the identically named (but incompatible) executables that are available in the package 'tct 1.18-2'.  The Sleuth Kit should take precedence and retain its canonical program names, though.  The Sleuth Kit is *designed to replace* tct, which has not had a feature update since 2004.  The Sleuth Kit is actively maintained and the vast majority of the active user-base from tct has migrated over to tsk, and therefore it should take precedence the older and lesser maintained tct tools.

Furthermore, the --help listings for the two programs shows that the tsk
version should be backwards compatible to the older tct-ils, whereas the
older tct-ils is not forward comptible with tsk-ils.  This is likely
true with mactime as well.

There seems to be some nod to attempting to handle with with alternatives, but it doesn't appear to work:
     $ update-alternatives --list ils
     /usr/bin/ils-sleuthkit
     $ update-alternatives --list mactime
     /usr/bin/mactime-sleuthkit

Note that alterntives is set to use the Sleuthkit binaries, but the tct
binaries are executed when running ils or mactime.

** Affects: sleuthkit (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Incorrect Names for ils and mactime
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