Bug#400112: [PROPOSAL] forbid source/binary package name conflicts
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 10:45:18PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> wrote:
> 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.
Just don't forget the case where this is intended behaviour like source
package renaming with dummy packages (such as what happened with firefox
and thunderbird and is happening with mozilla)
Mike
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