Re: Pre-release Woody 3.0: 'Man' & Gnome Terminal not working.
On Mon, Sep 23, 2002 at 12:45:51PM -0400, Mark L. Kahnt wrote:
> Pity - with the number of packages on the go now and an all volunteer
> team dealing with applications usually generated *elsewhere*, it is
> almost certain to have collisions in some filenames, particularly
> non-core names (people tend to remember names like "gcc", "vi" or
> "emacs".)
Well, that's why most files go in the .debs themselves rather than being
generated by maintainer scripts ... most of the latter at least tend to
have the package name in their file names, so the problem isn't too
severe.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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