On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 07:02:19AM -0500, Amin Bandali wrote: > We received https://bugs.debian.org/1057184 last month about gedit's > 'gnome-text-editor' alternative becoming problematic now that there is > an actual gnome-text-editor package/binary.
It sounds like this is being looked at backwards. If the /usr/bin/gnome-text-editor name was already being used by packages using the alternatives system, then a gnome-text-editor package arrived that stepped on the name, then it's the latter package's bug that it collides without at a minimum declaring a Conflicts against those existing packages. It probably shouldn't just step on that name without coordinating with the maintainers of those packages. It's probably just an oversight, but I think it's important to consider it from this perspective. A package doesn't just get to take over a slot in the namespace that is already used for some purpose because an upstream decided to start using it. Therefore the bug should probably be reassigned to gnome-text-editor as it introduced a serious policy violation (section 10.1 "Two different packages must not install programs with different functionality but with the same filenames").
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