Le Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:08:41PM +0200, Davide Puricelli a écrit : > > Summarizing, new mono packages introduced a /usr/bin/csc file that > conflicts with /usr/bin/csc I used to ship into chicken-bin, so now > there's a conflict between these two packages.
Hello Davide, This is covered by our 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 7.4 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. As proposed earlier in this thread, the package shipping a renamed binary can provide a link using the original name in /usr/lib/"package". Then it is easy for users to add /usr/lib/"package" at the beginning of their PATH environment variable. Nevertheless, this conflict is also an Upstream problem. Maybe you can ask to the Mono Upstreams if they can change their binary name. After all, chosing a three-letter binary name nowardays is looking for problems of this kind… Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
