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Bug#697602: Bug count confusion when "unrelated" binary and source has same name



Hi,

On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 13:24:33 +0100 Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 07, 2013 at 03:16:42PM +0100, Niels Thykier wrote:
> I'd seriously argue that one of the source packages has to change its name. I
> don't think that the two namespaces (source and binary packages) should be
> considered that separated, so that might warrant an addition to policy? ("Do
> not build a binary package that has the name of a totally unrelated source
> package"?)

I seriously think that source and binary packages are separate
namespace, and any tool that does trips over a conflict is probably not
very clear about what its data actually means and should be improved for
greater general robustness.

Greetings,
Joachim

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