Are any of these (like arping) literally duplicates of the same binary for some reason? Or are they true conflicts (different binaries with the same name)?
--J Sent from my mobile device. ________________________________ From: Gioele Barabucci <gio...@svario.it> Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2024 08:22 To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: On merging bin and sbin On 28/02/24 14:12, rhys wrote: > Last thing: The idea of detecting cases where multiple binaries have the > same name is a verey good one. It should also be possible to automate this > effort in a number of ways. I would be happy to help with this, if it's just > a matter of someone putting in the effort. A number of "crude by effective" > methods have already come to mind, some of which only require access to the > repos to accomplish. (The laziest method involves having a test machine with > EVERY package installed... but I'm not sure if that is practical.) Contents-{all,amd64} has most of the info you need. dumat.db has _all_ the info you need (and cacin is using that). This is a quick'n'dirty list of binaries present in both /bin and /sbin: arping bin net/iputils-arping sbin net/arping (+ Conflicts:) bitesize bin devel/ubuntu-dev-tools sbin misc/libbpf-tools crm bin mail/crm114 sbin admin/crmsh fai bin python/python3-flask-autoindex sbin admin/fai-client faxq bin comm/mgetty-fax sbin comm/hylafax-server (+ Conflicts:) gearmand bin perl/gearman-server sbin misc/gearman-job-server htpasswd bin httpd/apache2-utils sbin web/merecat (+ Conflicts:) ipp* bin net/ippsample sbin net/cups-ipp-utils (+ Conflicts:) newaliases bin mail/esmtp-run sbin mail/courier-mta,mail/opensmtpd,mail/ssmtp (+ Conflicts: + Provide:) raddebug bin libs/librad0-tools sbin net/freeradius sendfax bin comm/hylafax-client sbin comm/mgetty-fax (+ Conflicts:) sethdlc bin hamradio/ax25-tools sbin comm/dahdi siggen bin sound/siggen sbin utils/tripwire sslh bin perl/libnet-proxy-perl sbin net/sslh (+ Conflicts:) tcpconnect bin net/tcputils sbin misc/libbpf-tools tcpd bin graphics/tcm sbin net/tcpd update-locale bin web/gosa-dev sbin localization/locales Regards, -- Gioele Barabucci