-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 On Wed, 2016-11-30 at 23:18 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > The binary file names are conflicting for bcc and perf-tools-unstable. I don't > see a reason why one cannot co-install both the packages and use. But in its > current form, it'll fail complaining file overwrites. > > Personally, I don't think the alternatives route may be of much use because > apart from this 2 packages, I don't see any other package using these names. > Also, IMO, the alternatives feature is usually useful for common tools like > editor, pager etc. > > One option could be that we append the names of the binaries explicitly. > Example, for bcc => execsnoop-bcc, perf-tools => execsnoop-perf > > What do you say ? Or if you have any suggestions, please do mention.
I think we should stick with this proposal of appending the type along with the name. 1. On autocompletions, it'd autocomplete to "execsnoop-", which is an invalid name either way. This will expect the user to pay attention and fire the correct command. 2. This approach is explicit, visible and allows for co-existence for both. So, unless there is a concern, I'd want to target this change for the next upload of both the tools. The bpfcc follow-up upload is pending because of a FTBFS bug. And on the perf-tools side, there haven't been any substantial changes lately, warranting an upload. But whatever triggers the upload, we'll make this change included ? - -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf | http://people.debian.org/~rrs Debian - The Universal Operating System -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEEQCVDstmIVAB/Yn02pjpYo/LhdWkFAlhk2dAACgkQpjpYo/Lh dWkoEhAArTzTKmnb/m48slA0GJxV6J4IqJTdTzQ3DOg/T5HRtHdIanB0YDFk5bPb cQfAA7ovuk92C3WOeOu39LujxvZp8iy6Unx3olqGs1VDuK623kTc/9jQkCDiVr6f 3kgmoajL8XL34m45DHnmTOwnNpZif2oemQWGQx0RcR+Dc2tgjvmquUduzCQLgdym dSOpMXHXLUJei6HbGXdWXh0ohb7uzGm8U/P8McyJ3mSIZtiIdG0wl+iTqF6EfslI bDmleFZqiARij9DqOPWPZr7cjJaBjdCzCpL1FbamcxYk+qNocRVcSfX/kapJjUUn ZY8C8J+Cow8sZEkCTTH7HR7Yr4upsyVwrFsz4uB2aqWWu5GQ0/iPBRA4T+0NTu1k z6SSuY86vP79jcSJDH3TjVcX2Sme3XPBSG0UFu+yftGILq2XkAAcp7wS42B0AYDw 5fwwOKH9OpIotolQnSTBJUs2cebLArI6mr+cf7jtp1/LUGqS0myZmLc9UjP2lKki MKqSYtkWvmnlq1LwTF7PV7eqMzyNdj39W+N7iKrIYfs5KC5PrGnwvH7ydr3LWrSd TzcLKKjEYS+YldoJLjwd4Zy/bntBHWC+UMvG/0rwISMafT7GIU6cZS+L/CRscop+ +xzZ6ZMOWuojlwZYCNA3qyZwEjE7y5F31p6NcCoKDVah2tAljf4= =zgA+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
