Greetings, I've started packaging PasswordSafe (a GUI password manager) which ships a binary named pwsafe. Oldstable contains the pwsafe package (a command line password manager based on an earlier version of PasswordSafe) which also ships a binary named pwsafe. The policy says: "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." My inital reaction is that both packages are PasswordSafe compatible password managers, and that they differ in interface implementation. If this is the accepted interpretation, the I believe I can just use "Conflicts: pwsafe" and be ok, especially since pwsafe has been removed from stable/testing/unstable and is (in my opinion) very unlikely to be reintroduced. On the other hand, I believe an argument could be made that user interface style is a feature, and therefore the packages differ in functionality and a rename must occur. What's the right interpretation/approach here? Thanks, Bill
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