On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 11:19:26PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > As it has been pointed out hundreds of times, it is GNU that distributes a > program under then name 'install-info' which is incompatible with the dpkg > version. :) > > (The version in dpkg has seniority.)
It's not a matter of seniority, it's a matter of producing the highest quality distribution. The dpkg-iasearch package used to contain a program called dpkg-query. When the dpkg maintainers added a program with the same name, the dpkg-iasearch maintainer renamed his file, without worrying about 'seniority'. I think he did well to do so, don't you? Debian would do well to rename its install-info for the same reasons. -M-
