Conflicting manpage for queue.3
[ As suggested by Policy 10.1 [1], I am forwarding this issue to
debian-devel. Please maintain the cc list in followups. ]
Recent versions of manpages-dev include a new manpage queue.3. dqs has
been providing a manpage by this name for some time. Therefore there
is a file conflict when attempting to install both.
manpages-dev is effectively a required package on any system where
people do development. Its contents are part of every major Linux
distribution. For us to rename the queue.3 manpage in manpages-dev would
be a negative user experience for people switching to Debian or using
a mixture of Debian and other non-Debian Linux systems. Additionally,
dqs is non-free and therefore "not part of Debian". It seems doubly
foolish for manpages-dev to rename its manpage.
I therefore submit that bugs #208294 and #211620 be reassigned to dqs
and merged with bug #213526. In addition, I think dqs should probably
be added to the RFA: or O: list as it has had a release critical bug
open for 211 days as well as several easily-fixable bugs open for much
longer and no uploads since woody.
[1] 10.1 Binaries
Two different packages must not install programs with different
functionality but with the same filenames. (The case of two programs
having the same functionality but different implementations is handled via
"alternatives" or the "Conflicts" mechanism. See Maintainer Scripts,
Section 3.10 and Conflicting binary packages - Conflicts, Section
7.3 respectively.) If this case happens, one of the programs must be
renamed. The maintainers should report this to the debian-devel mailing
list and try to find a consensus about which program will have to be
renamed. If a consensus cannot be reached, both programs must be renamed.
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