On 2019-07-26, Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> wrote: >> >> That this stumbling block presents an insurmountable challenge to the >> development community defies the intellectual capacities of your >> admittedly naive correspondent. > > It's not insurmountable. The package maintainers simply have to work > together and decide how to handle the situation. If both of them rename > their "column" commands, then the alternatives system can be employed. >
Teemu Likonen has just now suggested, in an addendum to bug # 908975, "/usr/bin/bcolumn (bsdmainutils) and /usr/bin/lcolumn (linux-util)," a fair and dignified solution to the conflict which should satisfy all parties (though you never know, do you), and one perfectly amenable to the /etc/alternatives system. -- “We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” ― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
