Ah yeah good catch re: the name On Aug 7, 2025 at 1:10:40 PM, Nilesh Patra <[email protected]> wrote:
> No, I think using conflicts here is wrong. > > See https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s-binaries > > On 07/08/25 11:14 pm, Johan Walles wrote: > > How about marking moar and the other package as Conflicts with each other? > > > > https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#conflicting-binary-packages-conflicts > > > "Conflicts should be used when two packages provide the same file and will > > continue to do so," > > > I would guess the number of people who want both should be a small group... > > > Since moar has been out longer than moarvm and has more users, I think not > > having moar in Debian would be unfortunate. > > > Regards /Johan > > > Den tors 7 aug. 2025 kl 19:13 skrev Guillem Jover <[email protected]>: > > > > Hi! > > > > > > On Thu, 2025-08-07 at 12:09:55 -0400, Stephen Gelman wrote: > > >> On Aug 7, 2025 at 8:34:21 AM, Johan Walles <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > >>> Would you please consider packaging the moar pager (written in Go > > >>> obviously)? > > >>> > > >>> It has 800+ stars on GitHub: > > >>> https://github.com/walles/moar/ > > >>> > > >>> There's an RFP open: > > >>> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=944035 > > >>> > > >>> Is this something you think you could take on? > > > > > >> Sure, I’d be happy to take this on. It looks pretty straightforward, but > > >> I’ll let you know if I run into any issues. > > > > > > Unfortunately this project would conflict with the already present > > > package moarvm, which also provides /usr/bin/moar. > > > > > > I'm afraid this new package would need its program to be renamed to be > > > accepted into Debian (I guess ideally both the project and program name), > > > which can be a tall ask for a project that has existed for a while. :/ > > > > > > (Alternatively you could try to convince the upstream moarvm project > > > to rename their binary and shared library to moarvm, but unless that > > > happens, the moar program name should not be used by any other package > > > with a different functionality/interface.) > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Guillem > > > > > > >
