[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#984802: conflicts: lcdf-typetools

[Samuel Thibault]

Gürkan Myczko, le lun. 08 mars 2021 15:44:52 +0100, a ecrit:
> Package: otf-trace
> Version: 1.12.5+dfsg-7
> Severity: serious
> Justification: Sounds like a serious violation of ?10.1

Well, yes. The base issue is that OTF stands both for OpenType Font and
Open Trace Format. Thus the marked "Conflicts".

The question is who should "own" the otfinfo command name?

Packages names are not really a concern, I was fine with using
libopen-trace-format-dev along the existing libotf-dev.

But command names are really a concern since that's what documentations,
tutorials, etc. found on internet will say: "run otfinfo", and making
Debian systems deviate from that will confuse users, be it for one side
or the other side.

(and the probability that somebody works both on OpenType Font and Open
Trace Format on the same machine is quite low).

Samuel