Hello,

On Thu 27 Feb 2025 at 06:11pm +09, Charles Plessy wrote:

> Le Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 03:02:08PM +0800, Sean Whitton a écrit :
>>
>>     Packages that already install programs to /usr/games, where another
>>     package installs a program of the same with different functionality
>>     to a different directory on the default PATH, may continue to do so.
>
> Hi Sean,
>
> I would like to know why this exemption is only given to games?  We have
> scientific software that have been installing conflicting binaries for
> more than one decade without any of their users complaining about it,
> and I do not understand why it becomes a priority to change them now.

I didn't know about this.  Please share some examples on 
debian-policy@lists.d.o.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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