[ As suggested by Policy 10.1 [1], I am forwarding this issue to debian-devel. Please maintain the cc list in followups. ]
Recent versions of manpages-dev include a new manpage queue.3. dqs has been providing a manpage by this name for some time. Therefore there is a file conflict when attempting to install both. manpages-dev is effectively a required package on any system where people do development. Its contents are part of every major Linux distribution. For us to rename the queue.3 manpage in manpages-dev would be a negative user experience for people switching to Debian or using a mixture of Debian and other non-Debian Linux systems. Additionally, dqs is non-free and therefore "not part of Debian". It seems doubly foolish for manpages-dev to rename its manpage. I therefore submit that bugs #208294 and #211620 be reassigned to dqs and merged with bug #213526. In addition, I think dqs should probably be added to the RFA: or O: list as it has had a release critical bug open for 211 days as well as several easily-fixable bugs open for much longer and no uploads since woody. [1] 10.1 Binaries Two different packages must not install programs with different functionality but with the same filenames. (The case of two programs having the same functionality but different implementations is handled via "alternatives" or the "Conflicts" mechanism. See Maintainer Scripts, Section 3.10 and Conflicting binary packages - Conflicts, Section 7.3 respectively.) If this case happens, one of the programs must be renamed. The maintainers should report this to the debian-devel mailing list and try to find a consensus about which program will have to be renamed. If a consensus cannot be reached, both programs must be renamed. -- "Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception." -- Mark Twain
