Hello, On Fri 07 Sep 2018 at 10:10PM +0200, Ruben Undheim wrote:
> However, I think the policy gives us a lot of freedom to choose (it is not
> very
> strict in this case).
I don't understand. This seems pretty strict:
Two different packages must not install programs with different
functionality but with the same filenames.
> The alternatives system is supposed to be used for packages which
> provide similar functionality (as far as I have understood), and that
> is absolutely not the case here.
Right, alternatives is not for this.
> 5. The netgen-lvs binary package provides basically just a symlink from
> /usr/bin/netgen to /usr/bin/netgen-lvs
To my mind, this straightforwardly violates the sentence from Policy
quoted above, and would thus be RC-buggy.
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Sean Whitton
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