I've not chimed in on this yet because I haven't had much time to research the history or use of libuser (and I still haven't, really).
But I'd like to point out... The id-utils package has been part of Debian for almost as long as Debian existed. It is a rather old official GNU package (for what that is worth). I would have thought that people might check there when choosing short command names to avoid conflicts. Changing the first letter of the command is not the only way to make the command names different so changing the name of the libuser command while preserving the convention used there is still possible. Some questions: Does libuser have any reverse dependencies? Is /usr/sbin/lid used by many scripts in the wild? Is the decision on which command name to change something that should be discussed with upstream authors? --Brad On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 12:33 PM, Michael Gilbert <mgilb...@debian.org> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 1:32 PM, Michael Gilbert wrote: > > Here is a proposal, rename "lid" in id-utils to "qid". Here is the > logic: > > Also, no other package provides a "qid" binary in any of the bin dirs. > > Best wishes, > Mike >
