Conflicting filenames in upstream packages

[Santiago M. Mola]

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 6:58 PM, James Westby <jw+debian at jameswestby.net> 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,
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Santiago M. Mola
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