Russ Allbery wrote on 09/09/2018: > Oh, hm, yes, I rather like this idea too, particularly combined with > putting those symlink packages in their own namespace (and maybe their > own > section).
Totally makes sense. > Maybe this is overkill for the relatively small number of these packages > we run into, but it provides some basis for writing more interesting > tools. In my not-so-long life as a Debian package maintainer I encountered the issue several times, specifically with: * [ITP] fd-find: https://github.com/sharkdp/fd (/usr/bin/fd clashes with package fdclone) * [ITP] bat: https://github.com/sharkdp/bat (/usr/bin/bat clashes with bareos-bat) * imv: /usr/bin clashes with renameutils. I renamed the binary and manpage to 'imvr' * [dropped ITP] spm: https://notabug.org/kl3/spm /usr/bin/spm clashes with salt-common I ended up dropping the ITP for spm for several reasons. Sure the number of packages with a binary file clash problem is relatively small, but I don't think the issue can be ignored. Paride
