[Debian-astro-maintainers] Bug#756469: libfuntools-dev and libbsd-dev: error when trying to install together

[Guillem Jover]

Control: clone -1 -2
Control: reassign -1 libbsd-dev
Control: found -1 libbsd-dev/0.7.0-1
Control: reassign -2 libfuntools-dev
Control: retitle -2 libfuntools-dev: Please rename (at least) the funopen.3 man page
Control: severity -2 wishlist

On Wed, 2014-07-30 at 08:57:06 +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> Here is a list of files that are known to be shared by both packages
> (according to the Contents file for sid/amd64, which may be
> slightly out of sync):
> 
>   /usr/share/man/man3/funopen.3.gz
> 
> This bug has been filed against both packages. If you, the maintainers of
> the two packages in question, have agreed on which of the packages will
> resolve the problem please reassign the bug to that package. You may then
> also register in the BTS that the other package is affected by the bug.

I'm fixing libbsd-dev as it's the one that introduced this while
libfuntools-dev had already been using that pathname in Debian. But I
think libfuntools-dev should ideally also rename at least its man page
upstream, by at least suffixing the section number with something, for
example funopen.3funtools or similar. Because otherwise this conflicts
with the existing man page on BSD systems:

  <http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=funopen>
  <http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=funopen>
  <http://netbsd.gw.com/cgi-bin/man-cgi?funopen>
  …

But it might be worth considering eventually renaming the function
altogether, as it can be very confusing on those systems.

Thanks,
Guillem