Hi all, On Sat, 19 Dec 2020 Pirate Praveen wrote:>> Renaming the binary is harder, because there are at least two >> packages that use yarn from cmdtest during the build: gitano and >> vmdb2. they would need to be ported, and that's up to their >> maintainers and upstreams, who I assume won't be happy about it. > > Now only xauth and vmdb2 shows up as reverse build dependencies. I > have asked their maintainers if they are open to the name change in > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=977709 Ryutaroh and I have been working with vmdb2 upstream on a new release with support for more architectures.
During this process, upstream indicated that vmdb2 will move away from yarn (cmdtest) to Subplot (not yet packaged). A quick grep of the sources of xauth, the other reverse dependency of cmdtest, gets no results for the string 'yarn'. So the conflicting binary does not seem to be used there. So, strictly from the point of view of its reverse dependencies, holding off on renaming the 'yarn' binary would probably not make much sense. Best, Christian
