Re: Debian Policy 4.7.2.0 released
* Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org> [250227 10:12]:
> Le Thu, Feb 27, 2025 at 03:02:08PM +0800, Sean Whitton a écrit :
> >
> > Packages that already install programs to /usr/games, where another
> > package installs a program of the same with different functionality
> > to a different directory on the default PATH, may continue to do so.
>
> I would like to know why this exemption is only given to games? We have
> scientific software that have been installing conflicting binaries for
> more than one decade without any of their users complaining about it,
> and I do not understand why it becomes a priority to change them now.
Please provide real examples of science packages and numbers of
affected science packages that were affected by this change.
Chris
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