On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 9:48 AM, costamagnagianfra...@yahoo.it <costamagnagianfra...@yahoo.it> wrote: > > Hi Steffen and all, > > today while talking with a backbox project administrator I discovered that > popular tools such as openvas directly calls the amap binary. > > I never talked with them, but I don't think it is feasible to ask to every > security tool provider to patch their code for the only debian benefit. > > I think I'm then changing again my opinion: the conflict field might be the > only proper way to be sure such popular tools (not packaged in debian and > some of them not even free) continue to work. > > Is this one a good reason for a conflict?
Again, according to Policy 10.1, as well as precedent that was established by the CTTE decision regarding the namespace collision between ax25-node vs. nodejs, no, it isn't; your argument is no different from that of the nodejs maintainers, arguing that /usr/bin/node should be taken over by nodejs simply because it's already widely used by the nodejs community. If you feel strongly enough about this issue, I'd suggest filing a bug against debian-policy, going through the process and gathering consensus to change 10.1 (e.g. perhaps by weakening it to a "should" instead of a "must", or by proposing a carefully-worded exception to existing policy). Regards, Vincent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/caczd_tax8kynh4emcynsrvdweakohy9vgzbtrvkvqud8pra...@mail.gmail.com
