Package: mime-support Version: 3.40-1 Severity: serious Justification: Policy 10.1
See bug 457898 for context. As a result of that wishlist item, mime-support started registering /usr/bin/see as an alternative for /usr/bin/view. The /usr/bin/view alternative exists for vi implementations, such as vim, to provide the traditional name "view" for invoking a read-only vi on a file. /usr/bin/see clearly does not provide the same functionality, so registering this alternative violates Policy 10.1: > Two different packages must not install programs with different > functionality but with the same filenames. (The case of two programs > having the same functionality but different implementations is > handled via "alternatives" or the "Conflicts" mechanism. See > Maintainer Scripts, Section 3.9 and Conflicting binary packages - > Conflicts, Section 7.3 respectively.) If this case happens, one of > the programs must be renamed. The maintainers should report this to > the debian-devel mailing list and try to find a consensus about > which program will have to be renamed. If a consensus cannot be > reached, both programs must be renamed. Worse yet, mime-support registers /usr/bin/see with a higher priority than existing contenders for the /usr/bin/view alternative, so installing mime-support will now immediately break the expected functionality of view. Please have mime-support stop registering /usr/bin/see as an alternative for /usr/bin/view, and have it unregister the alternative when upgrading from versions of mime-support which registered the alternative. - Josh Triplett -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.23-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash mime-support depends on no packages. Versions of packages mime-support recommends: ii file 4.21-4 Determines file type using "magic" -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
