Bug#490832: plink and putty-tools
On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:33:10AM +0200, Steffen Moeller
wrote:
> thank you for your pointer. I'll send an update, hopefully
> that is then just easily put into the release, that will
> conflict with the putty package. To have the binary
> renamed would render Debian incompatible with all those
> scripts distributed in the community that use that tool.
Ok, that is a very good reason not to rename your plink.
> Being a user of putty under windows myself, I see plink
> for expert use only. Maybe we could eventually separate
> putty plink from the putty package. However, the number of
> installations that install both putty and plink will be
> rather minimal, so we should not bother too much.
>
> Would that be acceptable to you?
Sure. Perhaps the putty package should rename plink to
putty-plink or similar. In these kind-of situations it
seems to me that there is no clear rule on what should
happen - "oldest stays" does not seem like a sensible idea
(I think the epiphany package should be renamed
epiphany-game, for example, but the maintainer clearly
disagrees)
Just to be clear, I noticed the collision but I don't
actually use putty-tools myself :) It seems it might
disappear as part of removing gtk #1 packages in the future.
--
Jon Dowland
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