Bug#400112: [PROPOSAL] forbid source/binary package name conflicts
Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.7.2.2
Severity: wishlist
Hi,
Some source packages generate binary packages using the same name as
another source package. For example, see the 'qd' source package, and
the 'qd' binary package generated by the kfolding source package (in
contrib).
Some tools don't like it at all (e.g sbuild), causing confusing
behaviour, based on the order of entries in Sources.gz, and confusion
for users.
It might be a good idea to forbid name conflicts, since some tools don't
consider that they are totally different namespaces.
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