Joey Hess writes ("Re: Bug#597050: GNU parallel, name conflict with moreutils"):
> Ian Jackson wrote:
> > In that case you would not object to the upload of GNU parallel with
> > /usr/bin/parallel and a Replaces against current moreutils, and to an
> > NMU of moreutils to do the transition as I proposed ?
>
> That's not the interesting part of the work required for this
> transition. Managing breakage is.
What breakage do you anticipate that you as maintainer of moreutils
would have to deal with ?
It is obvious that a change like this might cause some breakage for
users who are using moreutils parallel in their own scripts. But
no-one is forcing you to deal with that.
Ian.
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