On Thu, 2016-12-01 at 00:56 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
> Hello Karsten,
> 
> On Wed, 2016-11-30 at 20:05 +0100, Karsten Merker wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > bcc is a package (and executable) name that is already in use for
> > another program in Debian. From https://packages.debian.org/sid/bcc:
> 
> I'm aware of it. bcc is an already packaged binary package. It build from 
> source package: linux86
> 
> For this package, I've tried to be close to what upstream has already named.
> So, for Debian, only the source package name is: bcc.
[...]

Please don't do this.  When the same name is used for a binary package
and for a source package that doesn't build that binary, it tends to
result in mis-assigned bugs as BTS users don't consistently specify
which they mean.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
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