Re: Intent to Rewrite: pwgen

[Martin Ellis <M.A.Ellis@ncl.ac.uk>]

On Thu, 31 May 2001, Itai Zukerman wrote:
> And, I'm also working on some code that has, among other things, a
> pwgen compatability mode.  I was thinking of releasing it with a pwgen
> executable and having it conflict with pwgen, but now I think that may
> not be such a good idea.

Can it Conflicts: pwgen and Provides: pwgen? (Does that make sense?)

Then use a sym-link (called pwgen) to use the backward compatibility - 
otherwise the new interface (with a new name).  It might be nicer to do that
than having two executables which do the same thing.

Martin Ellis