Le Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 08:48:57AM +0800, Paul Wise a écrit : > On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 8:14 AM, Alex Pennace wrote: > > > Even without that point, the conclusion remains the same: Both > > projects should endure the rename (unless one concedes), and that > > shouldn't be viewed in terms of "look at what those meanies in Debian > > are making us do" but instead regarded as a natural outcome of the > > choices each project made at various times. > > I personally wonder if we should change our policy instead of forcing > these two upstream communities into conflict.
I agree. One possiblity when packages A and B conflict for a program name would be to rename, but in addition to provide a wrapper that executes the program from A when only A is installed, from B when only B is installed, and that gives an error reporting alternative path names when both A and B are installed. The wrappers for all names could be provided by a third package. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111115094358.ge27...@merveille.plessy.net
