[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#794334: [Pkg-amule-devel] Bug#794334: ea-utils: /usr/bin/alc already used by amule-utils-gui

[Tim Booth]

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=794334

Hi,

If I were the overlord of Debian I'd say that GUI-only commands should
not take up any "precious" 3-letter command names, but as I'm not I
agree that we need to respect the principle of first-come-first-served.

Andreas' fix should work fine for this package, and the only dependent
package right now (python-burrito-fillings) only calls alc indirectly
via the other programs, so as long as ea-utils calls the renamed version
internally everything will work.

However, ALC is a potentially handy little tool outside of FASTQ file
manipulation - it was originally hosted at http://documentroot.com/alc
(dead link??) - so it would be nice to give it a snappy name which can
be acceptable in /usr/bin.  If we propose this to upstream (Erik
Aronesty - CC'd), what is the easiest way for him to check if any given
alternative command name is already taken in Debian?  I tried a search
on packages.debian.org but it doesn't give the right result:

https://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contents&keywords=%2Fusr%
2Fbin%2Falc&mode=exactfilename&suite=sid&arch=any

Cheers,

TIM