Presumably, the two packages should conflict instead, stopping both from being installed, or one change the installed command name and man page, most likely the small, little-used?, timeout package. Or timeout(1) be something available under alternatives.
The first, a conflict, seems easiest. And since coreutils is so "core" it will effectively make the timeout package uninstallable. There's also the issue of upgrades. I'm sitting here on 8.04 with an eye on moving on up through the releases to 9.10. I've the timeout package installed and I suspect things will go horribly wrong when an upgraded coreutils tries to deliver its timeout(1). I'll try and remember to uninstall timeout before doing the upgrade, but others won't know to do that. -- coreutils' timeout(1) is missing https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/383502 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
