On Sat, 2003-03-01 at 21:08, David R. Morrison wrote: > We gotta get you on the Fink team, Anthony... you understand the Debian > tools better than we do!
Thanks ;-)
>
> So how does Debian handle the situation where two different pacakges want
> to provide executables and/or man pages with the same name?
Debian handles it as specified in (Debian) Policy, 11.1:
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 2.3.9 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.
On my Debian system, btw, screensaver modules are installed in
/usr/lib/xscreensaver and manpages for them in section 6 (in the normal
directories).
Which screensaver module is this? I can check what its called on Debian.
That might provide some good ideas. Since screensavers are in their own
directory not normally in $PATH, there is a chance that Policy 11.1
isn't followed, of course ;-)
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