Conflicting filenames in upstream packages

[Toshio Kuratomi]

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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