El 05/07/2014 16:47, "Ralf Treinen" <trei...@free.fr> escribió: > > On Sat, Jul 05, 2014 at 09:01:45PM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > > > Il Sabato 5 Luglio 2014 13:03, Charles Plessy <ple...@debian.org> ha scritto: > > > > > > > > The ‘amap-align’ package version 2.2-4 install the file ‘amap’ in ‘/usr/bin’, > > > > this is why I am worried about clashes. > > > > Le Sat, Jul 05, 2014 at 12:11:37PM +0100, Gianfranco Costamagna a écrit : > > > > > > According to both popcons, and according to the fact that both of them are > > > really niche packages and in really different environments (one for > > > penetration testing and the other for med science) how do you feel about > > > making them non-coinstallable? > > > > This violates the Policy's section 10.1, but it is still my favorite solution > > for the reason that you explained above. > > I don't agree, packages should not be in conflict when it can be easily avoided > by renaming files. >
Renaming binaries is confusing for end users. Since 'amap' (the scanner) probably needs permission to make raw sockets to work properly (just like nmap) for some scans, why not install it in /usr/sbin/? That way there would be no conflict with the other package. Regards Javier
