Guillem Jover wrote... > On Fri, 2022-09-02 at 12:12:06 +0200, Christoph Biedl wrote: > > Sylvestre Ledru wrote... > > > I don't think renaming is the right approach against an MS-DOS > > > software (and I still think that Debian's policy is too binary for > > > this). > > > > As there is a very small chance users would want to install *both* > > packages, can't we just resolve this with a Breaks: on both sides, or > > anything else that prevents co-installation from happening? > > See Adrian's reply.
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On the plus side, I understand Sylvestre's statement now.
> I think this would make the program match the package name, and at the
> same time make it possible for willing users to simply modify their
> pathname or add a symlink say under ~/bin/arc pointing to the actual
> program.
Haven't fully decided on this yet, but I tend to stop shipping the symlink. And
while on it, handle the collision on /usr/share/man/man1/arc.1.gz as well.
> I can take a stab at this (as gratitude :), and propose a patch during
> the weekend or something, if you want.
Thanks for your offer and all the other kind words. Still I guess this
creates more work for you than for me, as I have more things to do for
this package anyway. Therefore I can take care of this particular story
en passant.
Regards,
Christoph
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