Hi,

On 2025-02-20 17:51:40 +0800, Sean Whitton wrote:
> I just pushed version 4.7.1.0 of the Debian Policy Manual and related
> documents to the binary-NEW queue for sid.
> Below you will find the significant normative changes from the
> previously-announced release of Policy (4.7.0.0).
[...]
> 10.1
>     Two different packages must not install programs with different
>     functionality to the same filenames, even names under different
>     directories, when the directories are on the default PATH.
[...]

What about existing packages with the same program name?

For instance,

https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/lam4-dev/filelist has
/usr/bin/hcc

and

https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/uhexen2/filelist has
/usr/games/hcc

and I'm quite sure that the hcc programs have different functionality.

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