On Sat, Jul 13, 2024 at 02:34:08PM -0700, Francois Marier wrote: > On 2024-07-13 at 11:33:28, Jörg Frings-Fürst (debian@jff.email) wrote: > > icmd is the abbreviation for ipmiutil cmd and ICMP stands for Internet > > Control > > Message Protocol. > > > > The renaming of the program icmd, which sends ICMP commands, is IMHO > > unfavorable. > > At first glance, I don't think icmd (and qcmd for that matter) are important > binaries for the renameutils package that need to be in /usr/bin/. I think > they could probably be moved to something like /usr/lib/renameutils/, fixing > the conflict between the two packages. > > That said, I don't have time in the short time to get this done. If someone > wants to help push this forward, this is what I think would be needed: > > - moving both icmd and qcmd to /usr/lib/renameutils/ > - creating patches for upstream code to change where the other commands > (imv, icp, qmv, qcp) look for icmd/qcmd > - testing that all four commands still work > - writing a NEWS.Debian entry warning users that icmd and qcmd have moved > - submitting a merge request on salsa > > I can commit to reviewing such a merge request. > > Otherwise, if it's not urgent, I will get to it once I have a little bit of > free time.
Did you find some time to work on this? The policy change landed in the meantime. Chris
