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Bug#1003653: Revision of removal of rename.ul from package util-linux



Hello Chris,

On Mon 28 Mar 2022 at 10:35PM +02, Christoph Berg wrote:

> The problem here is that if ul-extra contains things besides rename,
> and it conflicts with the perl rename, people will rightfully complain
> that they can't install /usr/bin/fincore-from-ul-extra and
> /usr/bin/rename-from-perl at the same time.

Indeed, and doesn't it violate Policy 10.1, which says "Two different
packages must not install programs with different functionality but with
the same filenames" ?  Perhaps it's an edge case.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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