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Re: RFS: news (News - RSS Ticker)



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Hi,

On 20.08.2011 11:05, Emmanuel Thomas-Maurin wrote:
> Thank you. I've been looking for a not-too-long, easy-to-remember name
> for binary/command, so (it may be a silly question) can package name and
> binary name be different - package name: 'news-rss-ticker' and
> binary/command: 'news'?

yes, that's certainly possible, although we as distributor tend to
refrain from such changes and let upstream decide how to call their
programs. As you are upstream yourself, you might be able just to rename it.

The problem with /usr/bin/news is its generic name in a globally shared
name space. In fact there is a already /usr/bin/news in the package
sysnews making yours providing it as well a policy violation. Please see
Debian policy § 10.1 [1] in general and examples like [2][3] for a
little more background.



[1] http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s-binaries
[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2011/02/msg00001.html
[3] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=611698

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with kind regards,
Arno Töll
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