Hi Andreas Henriksson,

> AFAIK (but I might be wrong) the ifstat currently shipped in debian
> has nothing in common with the iproute2 ifstat.
yes, they are different but they both provide interface statistics.

> Debian Policy forbids
> two programs from using the same name (in other words two different
> programs with the same name aren't allowed to simply declare a 
> Conflicts against eachother).
> Also when using the Provides declaration the programs has to be
> fully compatible (eg. same command line switches etc) and I don't
> think that's the case for both ifstat programs, right?
Yes, they have different command line switches.

Ok. Then this is not possible. Thank you for your reply.


Best regards,
Julian Wollrath

> 
> Regards,
> Andreas Henriksson
> 
> 



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