On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 6:58 PM, James Westby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2008-08-04 at 09:41 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: >> 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. > > Hey, > > Debian (and by extension Ubuntu) has the same attitude it seems. > > There are a couple of approaches you can use > > [...]
We do pretty much the same in Gentoo. > >> 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. > > That would be an interesting idea, and a good use for the wiki I expect. > > I don't imagine there is a better way of finding existing cases > than asking developers where they know of any? > Seconded. That list would be useful. A recent case of inconsistency which comes to my mind is docbook2X, which conflicts with other popular docbook tools and each distro uses a different naming for its binaries. Regards, -- Santiago M. Mola Jabber ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Distributions mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/distributions
