On Sun, 21 Dec 2014 20:23:17 -0600 Brad Bosch <brad112...@gmail.com> wrote: > I've not chimed in on this yet because I haven't had much time to research > the history or use of libuser (and I still haven't, really). > > But I'd like to point out... > > The id-utils package has been part of Debian for almost as long as Debian > existed. It is a rather old official GNU package (for what that is > worth). I would have thought that people might check there when choosing > short command names to avoid conflicts. > > Changing the first letter of the command is not the only way to make the > command names different so changing the name of the libuser command while > preserving the convention used there is still possible. > > Some questions: > Does libuser have any reverse dependencies? Is /usr/sbin/lid used by many > scripts in the wild? Is the decision on which command name to change > something that should be discussed with upstream authors?
lid from id-utils has a reverse dependency usage which I've found via code search. libuser has no reverse dependency usage of lid command, instead most things use the shared library API. My proposed fixed, which i've failed to upload multiple times, was to add --program-transform-name=s,lid,libuser-lid, to the configure call, which will thus rename lid command and it's manpage to libuser-lid, which should have a minimal effect and result in no breakages in Debian. Regards, Dimitri. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
