executable name collision

[Carlo Segre <segre@iit.edu>]

Hello All:

We are working on package of a data acquisition & control system (called 
"mx") which has an executable called "motor" which has a completely 
different function (it is a java editor).  This executable conflicts with 
an executable of the same name in the package "motor" [0].  Since this 
executable is in use in a number of places, I really can't change its name 
in the Debian package.  The only way I can see to handle this is to make 
our package (called mx1.2) conflict with the "motor" package or just 
ignore the entire thing and let the last package installed with a 
--force-overwrite win.

Any other ideas?

Cheers,

Carlo

[0] http://packages.debian.org/unstable/editors/motor

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