Bug#577638: mpich2: conflict over the mpd binary

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 13/04/10 at 12:42 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> Package: mpich2
> Version: 1.2.1~rc1-1
> Severity: serious
> Justification: Policy 10.1
> 
>      Two different packages must not install programs with different
>      functionality but with the same filenames.
> 
> The Conflicts on mpd doesn't change that.

It's indeed very annoying that we have those two different uses of the
mpd name. But there is a lot of documentation on MPI referring to mpd,
and it would be very confusing to change the name of the mpd binary for
users of mpich2.

So, there's no perfect solution, and I think that the current one
(assume that there's no common user of  music player daemon and mpich2)
is the best compromise.
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