Conflicting filenames in upstream packages

[Toshio Kuratomi]

Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 04, 2008 at 09:41:38AM -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.
> 
>> 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.
> 
> Even more than that, I would say that all distros will benefit from a
> common place where to document the choices they made in term of
> executable renamings.
> 
> On one hand, when a new package is going to be introduced in a distro,
> the maintainer would benefit from taking choices similar to those made
> by other distro. This would ease migrating from one distro to another.
> 
> On the other hand, having an overview which shows how all distros
> renamed a given executables would be an extra argument in persuading
> upstream that a given naming choice was inappropriate.
> 
> Would be a wiki page enough to get started with something like that?
> 
Okay, wiki page created:
  http://distributions.freedesktop.org/wiki/ConflictingFiles

If other people here like the general format, we should go ahead and
announce it to our respective packagers and see if we can get some
useful data filled in :-)

-Toshio

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