Dear Hwei, Uwe and John, I did not manage to contact you in private (see below), therefore by policy 10.1 I have to move the discussion on debian-devel (copy sent to debian-med). We (the members of the pkg-emboss project on Alioth) have uploaded a new package in the experimental section of Debian, emboss, which provides binary program with similar names as your packages.
I would like to discuss what is the best solution to this problem for our users. We have already explored a few possible directions on the debian-med mailing list: http://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2007/04/msg00075.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-med/2007/05/msg00000.html (The thread is split on two months) Basically, the plan would be to provide the binaries under their original names in /usr/lib, and symlinks in /usr/bin. With such a setup, a user can set his PATH in order to have access to the original names of the binary programs. However, if I do not get answers, I will suppose that nobody cares about the packages cons, pscan and/or hsffig anymore, and will request their removal rather than complicating the things for the users of EMBOSS. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy, Wako, Saitama, Japan ----- Forwarded message from Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----- Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 18:53:45 +0900 From: Charles Plessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Hwei Sheng Teoh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Uwe Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: New pacakge containing binaries with same name as some from the packages cons, pscan and hsffig. Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Dear Hwei, Uwe and John, We have uploaded a package to experimental, "emboss", and it contains binaries whose name are already "taken" by your packages: cons, pscan and splitter. http://packages.qa.debian.org/e/emboss.html Emboss is a suite of many command line programs, it has web interfaces and people use the program names in scripts. I am therefore quite reluctant to rename the Emboss binaries, as I think that people will just not use the package if I do this. I would like to have your opinion on what to do. The most straightforward would be to swich the priorities of our packages to extra and conflict on each other, but I do not know how to interpret the policy... it this solution acceptable ? Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian EMBOSS Packaging Team Wako, Saitama, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- End forwarded message ----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
