Bug#661309: RFS: task-spooler/0.7.3-1 [ITP] (fix policy violation)
On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 11:12:04AM -0300, David Bremner wrote:
> David Bremner <bremner@debian.org> writes:
>
> > I'll have a look at this.
>
> I sent a separate mail about some warnings from cppcheck and
> compilation. These might not be blockers, but the following is, your
> package currently violates policy 10.1
>
> Two different packages must not install programs with different
> functionality but with the same filenames.
>
> ( http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s-binaries )
>
> In particular your package ships /usr/bin/ts, which is also present in
> moreutils.
>
> Note that conflicts are not appropriate to resolve this problem; it is
> perfectly plausible for people to want both moreutils and task-spooler
> installed.
>
> Since your package is the new one, the obvious thing is for you to
> rename your version. I leave that to you and Joey Hess (the moreutils
> maintainer) to sort out.
The conflict is resolved by renaming ts to tsp.
I have reuploaded new task-spooler 0.7.3-1 to
http://mentors.debian.net/package/task-spooler
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