Re: Many executables across Debian's archives share basenames

2017-10-13 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Fri, Oct 06, 2017 at 09:16:41AM +1100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: Many of these packages (especially old X stuff) “should” migrate to the command/subcommand way of life. That might be too much work and result in compatibility problems, but maybe instead we could move all the X stuff to another p

Re: Many executables across Debian's archives share basenames

2017-10-05 Thread Russ Allbery
Zenaan Harkness writes: > Another one is "import" - should simply NEVER be a program name - > should be reserved. > man page: import - saves any visible window on an X server and > outputs it as an image file. You can capture a single window, the > entire screen, or any rectangular portion of th

Re: Many executables across Debian's archives share basenames

2017-10-05 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On Thu, Oct 05, 2017 at 01:32:47PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Thu, 05 Oct 2017, Kamil Cholewiński wrote: > > I wrote a short script that calls "apt-file find 'bin/'", filters > > results to include only stuff from /bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin, and > > looks for basename clashes. Turns out, i