Hi there.
I'm the parallel mantainer here in Debian (I was sponsored by Ondřej).
On Sep 27 2012, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> I still feel rather strongly that a wrong and bad design decision has been
> made here.
To be really, really honest, *I* myself, am not really interested in the
--tollef thing being set as the default here in Debian, but that was a
compromise that had to be made to get GNU parallel in Debian.
I know that this has escalated up to the technical committee (which I think
was going to extremes), but I would love to kill this with a "Conflicts:"
and be done with this situation with moreutils and put big fat warnings in
the package description (or in some other documentation) about what one
should do to get both GNU parallel and moreutils installed.
IMVHO, this "technical" problem is actually getting to be a social problem:
it's not that the packages can't be coinstallable, but that the author's
opinions won't probably change, that's actually a "conflict". (*)
I may be skimming too fast the Debian Policy, but since it states in section
7.4 that (among other things):
,----
| Conflicts should be used
|
| when two packages provide the same file and will continue to do so,
`----
and there's an impasse here, perhaps a new upload should be made to settle
this, at least temporarily, with some proper documentation.
I simply don't want to "fight" and, for that reason, I am willing to adopt a
less-than-perfect measure that can (even if bluntly) workaround the social
problems here.
This way, I could close both this bug and Joey's
http://bugs.debian.org/674698
Regards,
Rogério Brito.
(*) Perhaps one situation to accomodate both behaviors would be to check
(both by moreutils and GNU parallel) if the program was invoked as, say,
gparallel or tparallel and take some appropriate measure, but that's for
later, not in a freeze.
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