Charles Plessy wrote: > Dear debian-devel, > > I am maintaining a package that shares binary names with three others, > cons, hsffig and pscan. I contacted their developpers in private, > via debian-devel, and then through the BTS. I got an answer from the > maintainer of cons, but the maintainers of hsffig and pscan, although > active, have opted out answering.
You introduce a new package which ships files that conflict with existing packages... I don't see any good reason why you should decide to break the other packages without any good reason in the first place. > In the meantime, hsffig has been orphaned by others, and its removal is > currently discussed. > > I would like to know if it is OK that I orphan pscan and open a > discussion about its removal. I don't see a reason to orphan a package from an active maintainer unless that maintainer agrees. Now to the core: A package cons that ships /usr/bin/cons and a package pscan that ships /usr/bin/pscan makes sense and these binaries and project names exist for a long time. Why do you think a rename of the files /usr/bin/cons and /usr/bin/pscan in emboss is out of the question? Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
