Bug#400112: [PROPOSAL] forbid source/binary package name conflicts
Hi,
On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 22:45:18 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum
<lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> said:
> Some source packages generate binary packages using the same name as
> another source package. For example, see the 'qd' source package,
> and the 'qd' binary package generated by the kfolding source package
> (in contrib).
> Some tools don't like it at all (e.g sbuild), causing confusing
> behaviour, based on the order of entries in Sources.gz, and
> confusion for users.
Why is this not considered a bug in the tools that needs to be
fixed, rather than creating policy to work around bugs in the toolchain?
manoj
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