[Debian-iot-maintainers] Bug#1076219: Bug#1076219: freeradius, librad0-tools: install program with same name (raddebug)

Bernhard Schmidt berni at debian.org
Sat Aug 30 11:04:04 BST 2025


Am 30.08.25 um 10:21 schrieb Joachim Zobel:
> Am Donnerstag, dem 28.08.2025 um 16:56 +0200 schrieb Bernhard Schmidt:
>> How is the situation with librad0-tools?
> 
> The home page is gone, but there ist a Github repo at
> https://github.com/mteel/radlib. It has not been changed since the
> initial upload in 2014.
> 
> $ apt-rdepends -r -f
> Depends,PreDepends,Suggests,Recommends,Conflicts,Replaces,Obsoletes
> librad0
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> Reading state information... Done
> librad0
>    Reverse Depends: librad0-tools (= 2.12.0-6+b1)
>    Reverse Depends: radlib-dev (= 2.12.0-6+b1)
> librad0-tools
> radlib-dev
> 
> It looks as it is almost unused. So we should rename its raddebug.
> Unfortunately I have no idea for another name.

How about raddebug.radlib? Same rationale as with my proposed 
raddebug.freeradius, it encodes the package name and you can find it 
using autocompletion if you know the old name.

Are you willing to just rename the librad raddebug or do we need to 
rename both?

Bernhard



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