Re: [Debian-med-packaging] Bug#657644: wcstools and emboss: error when trying to install together

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

Le Fri, Jan 27, 2012 at 07:13:18PM +0100, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> 
> Usually we do handle this by a first come, first served policy and
> according to this in a new package like wcstools the binary should be
> renamed (and properly documented to inform the users about this change).
> 
> I'd suggest smething like wgs-remap or alternatively you can provide a
> /usr/lib/wgstools/remap and ask users to set their PATH accordingly to
> not break existing scripts or things like this.

Hi all,

emboss also has some programs already renamed, so one more would not hurt too
much.  Would there be a project-wide black list of common names, I would be
willing to add /usr/bin/remap there and rename it in emboss in addition to
wgstools.

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles