Dear all, since maybe not everybody is subscribed to debian-devel, here is an extract from a discussion about the necessary renaming of unrelated programs that are distributed by two different packages under the same name ('plink').
Le Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 08:00:54PM +0100, Andreas Tille a écrit : > On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > I think that I would like the Debian Blend distributions (formerly called > > CDDs) > > to manage this smartly in the future. We could have some mechanisms that > > make > > sure that for biologists, plink relates to SNPs, not to SSH. But this is a > > long > > term goal with no implementation plan. > > Well, an implementation plan could be to symlink any binary to a > /usr/share/blends/<blendname>/bin > directory and adjust PATH for those users who are registered as > user of this blend - so I see no problem in principle to realise > this idea. But I'm absolutely not happy about such kind of workarounds. > As I explained earlier it is also about name space polution in the > Free Software namespace - it makes no sense to find a Debian specific > or a Blend specific solution and should be avoided in general. Maybe we can think about it during the release cycle of Squeeze. Of course not as a facility for upstream authors to chose too generic names, but as a facility for the users to deal with the consequences when the mistake has been done. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]