[Debian-ha-maintainers] Bug#1098983: crm114, crmsh: both install crm

[Jonathan Dowland]

Hi all,

Chris mentioned this bug in reply to me on #1104051 so I'm putting my 2p
in here.

On Sat, Mar 15, 2025 at 10:05:11PM +0100, Milan Zamazal wrote:
> >>>>> "VV" == Valentin Vidic <vvidic at debian.org> writes:
> 
>     VV> Maybe the binary can be renamed to crm114 and NEWS.Debian can
>     VV> list dpkg-divert as an option if someone needs to keep it under
>     VV> the original name?
> 
> This is the cleanest option.  I thought about the fact that all the
> crm114 users would be impacted while in case nobody uses both crm114 and
> crmsh on the same machine (which is quite likely I guess), making the
> packages simply conflicting wouldn’t impact anybody.  But it’s probably
> better to go with the cleaner option, it’s a one-time change after all.

We need to consider what is the best course of action for Trixie, and 
then longer-term. Trixie hard freeze is 2025-05-15 (13 days time).

I agree that the best longer-term solution is to rename crm114 (slightly 
grumpy, since it's been established at bin/crm for far longer). However,
I think implementing a rename at this point and having effectively zero 
time for a transition to soak before the freeze is not great for users.

How about adding a conflict and a NEWS.Debian entry for Trixie, 
explaining the conflict and that for trixie+1 it'll be renamed (and no 
conflict)?