Re: bat: 3 different programms and one name

[Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de>]

* Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org> [2016-02-03 20:23 +0100]:

> On Wed, Feb 03, 2016 at 07:54:22PM +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> 
> > It seems that we have /usr/bin/bat and /usr/share/man/man1/bat.1.gz
> > three times in unstable:
> > 
> > bacula-console-qt
> > bareos-bat
> > alsa-utils
> > 
> > It should be easy to rename ie alsa's bat to bat-alsa but should
> > this be mentioned in a patched manpage as well?
> > 
> > How is the correct way to solve this?
> 
> The correct way is indeed to rename the binary. Another suggestion is to
> name it "basic-audio-tester" instead of "bat-alsa". Inform upstream of
> their conflict with existing programs with the same name, so perhaps
> they can change it as well.

Upstream cooperated and provided a patch with new names. Please note
that the upload of alsa-utils/1.1.0-2 doesn't fix the name conflict
in bacula-console-qt and bareos-bat!

Thanks
Elimar
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