[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#826684: /usr/bin/spin in "staden" and /usr/bin/spin in "spin"

[Andreas Tille]

Hi,

I'm not a staden user - just packaging it.  Could somebody please
comment on the considerations below?

Thanks

      Andreas.

On Sat, Jun 11, 2016 at 04:47:56PM -0700, tony mancill wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm not familiar with staden, but am taking a look at it and see that
> /usr/bin/spin is symlinked -> /usr/bin/gap4, and that is essentially a
> wrapper script that run things from /usr/lib/staden/bin/ (or BINDIR).
> 
> I also noticed that invoking "staden" returns a list of those file in
> the BINDIR, so invoking "staden spin" would still work without a
> /usr/bin/spin file shipped with the staden package.  Of course, there's
> still the question of the manpage.
> 
> For the "spin" binary in the "spin" package, there isn't such a
> mechanism available, so it would be more of a "think of a suitable name
> and update the Debian documentation and README appropriately" exercise.
> 
> I assume "spin" has been called "spin" since its inception in staden
> [1], and it's the same for the spin package [2].  Both projects appear
> active and viable, so I see this as a question of trying to make a
> sensible choice for our users (which I see as the choice that causes the
> least confusion and disruption).  However, I don't pretend to know what
> that is, I'm just hoping to start the conversation around this bug.  It
> seems like the packages aren't likely to be co-installed, but my
> understanding is that policy frowns upon simply having them conflict
> with each other.
> 
> Is there any chance the staden maintainers would consider renaming the
> wrapper in /usr/bin to "spin-gui" or something similar?  Or perhaps spin
> (software verification) might become spin-verify?
> 
> Thank you,
> tony
> 
> [1] http://staden.sourceforge.net/
> [2] http://spinroot.com/spin/whatispin.html
> 




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