Package: bacula-console-qt Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected]
bacula-console-qt ships the Bacula Admin Tool as `/usr/sbin/bat`. This is a GUI tool, and has a `.desktop` file pointing to it. Meanwhile, there is a Debian package for the `bat` command-line tool, very commonly invoked via the command line. People are accustomed to using that tool as `bat` in other distributions, but Debian ships it as `batcat` to avoid conflicts with Bacula. (This rename originally occurred to avoid conflict with a different package that was more commonly invoked via the command line; the rename was preserved to avoid conflict with Bacula.) This is sufficiently awkward that users sometimes use diversions or symlinks or similar to work around it. `bat` upstream reached out to Bacula upstream, in https://gitlab.bacula.org/bacula-community-edition/bacula-community/-/issues/2774 . Bacula's upstream maintainer said: > I believe that distro are used to do that. bacula-console-qt or > bacula-bat are fine and should be used. People might be surprised and > looking for the executable they used before, they will not be very > happy, but in this case, it might be a link in some menu so the impact > will be limited. Would you be willing to consider shipping the executable in Debian as `bacula-bat`, and updating the `.desktop` file accordingly? This would then allow Debian to maintain cross-distribution compatibility for users of the `bat` command-line tool commonly found in other distributions. Thank you for considering this. - Josh
