On 2009-08-13 12:07:18 -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > I have a few choices: > > 1. Make xz-lzma conflict with lzip. [...]
This is unacceptable. > 2. Use alternatives or diversions to allow both xz-lzma and lzip to > install lzdiff commands. Since each package's lzdiff does something > different, this is a bad idea. And this may be too complex for a short term (lzip won't ship lzdiff and so on, as they will be replaced by zutils). > 3. Only ship lzma, unlzma, and lzmadec in the xz-lzma package and stop > shipping lzdiff, lzgrep, lzmore, lzless, and so on. This would make > the xz-lzma package compatible with the lzma Debian package, which I > think just never bothered to include those. The lzma format is obsolete anyway. And the future is zutils. > 4. Make xz-lzma ship lzma, unlzma, lzmore, lzcmp, and so on, but not > lzdiff or lzgrep so as to not conflict with lzip. I think this would > be just too confusing. Yes. > None of them seem great to me. What do you think? Solution 3 is OK, IMHO. BTW, there's a problem with the lzdiff man page at least: xvii:~> man lzdiff man: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/lzdiff.1.gz is a dangling symlink man: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/lzdiff.1.gz is a dangling symlink man: warning: /usr/share/man/man1/lzdiff.1.gz is a dangling symlink No manual entry for lzdiff See 'man 7 undocumented' for help when manual pages are not available. xvii:~> dlocate man1/lzdiff xz-utils: /usr/share/man/man1/lzdiff.1.gz -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.org> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / Arenaire project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
