Package: debian-policy Version: 4.7.0.0 X-Debbugs-CC: hel...@subdivi.de Control: tags -1 + patch
Hi, every so often packages install different, unrelated programs into different directories on the PATH. This often goes unnoticed for a long time, thus changing it later becomes harder. I think policy already forbids this with the existing wording in 10.1 - it says "filenames" and not "paths". I think this should be made more explicit. Today this is *in Debian* often "only" a problem for the root user, which has /sbin on the default PATH. But some of our downstreams always have /sbin on the PATH, and it also seems adding /sbin is a popular customization, etc. Chris diff --git a/policy/ch-files.rst b/policy/ch-files.rst index b34c183..40bfa42 100644 --- a/policy/ch-files.rst +++ b/policy/ch-files.rst @@ -7,7 +7,9 @@ Binaries -------- Two different packages must not install programs with different -functionality but with the same filenames. (The case of two programs +functionality but with the same filenames. This also applies when they +are installed into different directories on the default (user or root) +``PATH``. (The case of two programs having the same functionality but different implementations is handled via "alternatives" or the "Conflicts" mechanism. See :ref:`s-maintscripts` and
