On Thu, 15 Oct 2015 18:14:17 +0200 Alexandre Detiste <alexandre.deti...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Sounds very cool, but apt-file tells me this name is already > > > taken: > > > > > > emboss: /usr/bin/yank > > > > I think I'll keep the package name, but I'll install the binary > > itself under some other name, maybe something > > like /usr/bin/yank-cli ? [...] > Hi, from [1], I see that emboss ships 261 programs in > /usr/bin/ including cool names like "banana", "chaos", "needle", > "water", "wobble" ... so this means all these names > can't be re-used forerver :-( > > Current /usr/bin/yank [2] is 10 lines of code, the new tool > seems more usefull for more users; [...] > [2] > https://sources.debian.net/src/emboss/6.6.0%2Bdfsg-1/emboss/yank.c/ Well, that `emboss` tool clearly appears to be lame in its approach: it should provide a single CLI tool called `emboss` which would have those "yank" et al as its subcommands so that anyone could do something like `emboss yank ...` etc. I'd say this should be reported as a bug upstream. The original names could be provided as a compat package shipping a bunch of shell one-liner scripts.