On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 12:41:43PM +0200, Lars Steinke wrote: > On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 11:00:10AM +0200, Laurent Bonnaud wrote: > > Package: request-tracker1 > > Version: 1.0.7-2 > > Severity: important > > > > Unpacking schedutils (from .../schedutils_0.0.5-2_i386.deb) ... > > dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled: > > trying to overwrite `/usr/bin/rt', which is also in package request-tracker1 > > dpkg - warning, overriding problem because --force enabled: > > trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man1/rt.1.gz', which is also in package request-tracker1 > > > > I report this problem to the request-tracker1 package instead of the > > schedutils package because I think 2 letters commands should be > > reserved for low-level system commands. > > While that may be your opinion, it is not what Debian policy states. According to section 11.1 of the Policy, the issue should be brought to debian-devel where a consensus should be reached. I also Cc'd this message to the upstream authors of schedutils and request-tracker1, so that they are informed of this naming conflict caused by there projects and so that they might decide themselves what to do about it. > In any case this conflict has to be resolved, so I hereby ask Guus > Sliepen if he feels that his rt command should be renamed, as > schedutils is a new package, or if there is good reason not to > change its name, so that I will make the change in my package... In this case I agree with Laurent. Furthermore, as he is one who uses both packages, he is less biased than we (the package maintainers), and apparently he seems to prefer request-tracker1's rt to be renamed. -- Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards, Guus Sliepen <guus@sliepen.warande.net>
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