I agree with Graham, this is a plain and simple naming clash. The only reasonable resolution is to rename one (or both) of the binaries.
You could workaround the clash with Conflicts:, but that's not reasonable either since there's no reason both binaries shouldn't coexists. A possible alternative is to place Dalvik dx in a subdir e.g. /usr/bin/android/dx or /usr/lib/dalvik/dx, and add that directory to PATH (perhaps with postinst templates to use the administrator choose whether to do that or to prepend/postpend to PATH) Drew On Wed, 2016-02-10 at 11:36 +0200, Graham Inggs wrote: > Hi Hans-Christoph > > On 8 February 2016 at 21:25, Hans-Christoph Steiner <h...@at.or.at> > wrote: > > We have just packaged the "Dalvik Explorer" aka android-platform- > > dalvik > > which is always used as the command util 'dx'. > > Always? IBM's DX has been around since 1991. :) > > > This conflicts with > > OpenDX's /usr/bin/dx, so I propose that OpenDX support /usr/bin/dx > > using > > the 'alternatives' system. > > I don't believe the 'alternatives' system is the way to solve this. > > From: > "The Debian alternatives system creates a way for several programs > that fulfill the same or similar functions to be listed as > alternative > implementations that are installed simultaneously but with one > particular implementation designated as the default." > > Clearly Dalvik Explorer's /usr/bin/dx and OpenDX's /usr/bin/dx do not > fulfil the same or similar functions. > > I'm CC-ing the Debian Science list as I am sure similar situations > have been resolved in the past, and hopefully someone will suggest > possible solutions. > > Regards > Graham > > > [1] http://www.opendx.org/about.html > [2] https://wiki.debian.org/DebianAlternatives > -- debian-science-maintainers mailing list debian-science-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/debian-science-maintainers
