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

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Samuel Thibault (2021-03-08 16:12:37)
> 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?

Do you mean if the package already owning it is ok giving it up?


> 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).

I thought similarly about a clash between a JavaScript interpreter and a 
ham routing daemon, but turned out the rules are quite strict: See 
bug#681360 about node.


 - Jonas

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