Bug#404010: No reasonable solution

2006-12-26 Thread Rafael Laboissiere
* Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-12-24 14:30]: For my part, I've never heard of slang-slirp before, and it seems obvious to me from the naming prefix that the slirp package does have prior claim to the name. I think this just needs to be resolved by slang-slirp changing its binary

Bug#404010: No reasonable solution

2006-12-24 Thread Moritz Muehlenhoff
Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: Regarding conflicts like that between slang-slirp and slirp. (see recent bugs filed by Michael Ablassmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ). I feel that this a currently an area not addressed by policy sufficiently well.

Bug#404010: No reasonable solution

2006-12-24 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 02:31:37PM +0530, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: Regarding conflicts like that between slang-slirp and slirp. (see recent bugs filed by Michael Ablassmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ). I feel that this a currently an area not

Bug#404010: No reasonable solution

2006-12-22 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, Regarding conflicts like that between slang-slirp and slirp. (see recent bugs filed by Michael Ablassmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ). I feel that this a currently an area not addressed by policy sufficiently well. Assume that: 1. There are

Bug#404010: No reasonable solution

2006-12-22 Thread Luk Claes
Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: Hello, Regarding conflicts like that between slang-slirp and slirp. (see recent bugs filed by Michael Ablassmeier [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ). I feel that this a currently an area not addressed by policy sufficiently well.

Bug#404010: No reasonable solution

2006-12-22 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Hello, On Fri, 22 Dec 2006, Luk Claes wrote: Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: In such a situation it would be incorrect to insist that one of the packages use a binary with a different name---because of (1). So what's wrong with insisting both of them changing the name? That we would have two

Bug#404010: No reasonable solution

2006-12-22 Thread Kapil Hari Paranjape
Small correction. On Fri, 22 Dec 2006, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: Now suppose we get two programs that give us /usr/bin/slirp.comm. Then we have: /usr/bin/slirp.comm - /etc/alternatives/slirp - /usr/bin/slirp.comma That should be: /usr/bin/slirp.comm -