On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 17:53 +0100, Wookey wrote: > +++ Patrick Ouellette [2012-05-01 23:12 -0400]: > > Of course the #! line is not the issue. The issue is two upstream > > maintainers > > separated by years and miles selected the same generic name for their binary > > file. Compounding the issue, some Debian Maintainer seeking to better the > > project by packaging additional software for the project failed to perform > > "due diligence" in researching if any of the binary names from the proposed > > new package were already in use. > > Just a quick question - is there an easy way to do this?
At least for projects hosted / listed on a variety of sites such as freshmeat^Wfreecode, there's Steve Kemp's "namecheck" script, a version of which is included in devscripts. Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
