How do other distributions deal with conflicting filenames in upstream packages? For instance, in Fedora we have coda-client and coq packaged. They both provide /usr/bin/parser.

Our policy is to rename one or both of those to a new name so that users can install both packages if they desire. However, that does pose the problem of inconsistency with upstream and other distros (we want our packagers to ping upstream first, of course, but they aren't always amenable to changing the name.)

If other distros have a policy of name changing, it would be nice to start a list of packages that we're doing renames to so that we could at least have consistency between ourselves.

-Toshio

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