On Wed, Aug 25, 2021 at 09:57:09AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Wouter Verhelst <wou...@debian.org> writes: > > On Mon, Aug 23, 2021 at 08:23:50AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > > >> If we tried to document every random bit of buggy packaging behavior > >> anyone thought of in Policy, Policy would become unwieldy, so I want to > >> verify here that someone really thought having one package containing a > >> file in /bin and another package containing the same file in /usr/bin > >> was was a reasonable thing to do (as opposed to accidental). Are there > >> packages in the archive like this? Or could you point me at the > >> message in the thread that said this was non-buggy? I think I missed > >> it. > > > The problem here is also that if there are two packages like that, on an > > usrmerge system, we would not know this is happening. > > I agree, of course, but I don't see a way in which Policy can help with > that problem unless this packaging decision was intentional and the person > who made that decision would have chosen otherwise if Policy had said to > not do it. > > This seems more like an appropriate check for an archive-wide QA tool > looking for cross-package problems.
Indeed, and that was the point I was trying to make: it's not something Policy can help with, unless it is intentional (and it is my belief that this is not likely to be the case). -- w@uter.{be,co.za} wouter@{grep.be,fosdem.org,debian.org}