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

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Samuel Thibault (2021-03-08 18:00:31)
> Jonas Smedegaard, le lun. 08 mars 2021 17:36:53 +0100, a ecrit:
> > 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?
> 
> No, I rather mean that in name spaces it's hard to define a notion of 
> "owning" a name. The two meanings of "OTF" have sprinkled 
> independently, one can try to look at history to check "who came 
> first", but that's rather meaningless.
> 
> > > 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.
> 
> And yet it has been so for 9 years without anybody complaining.

Ohhh, now I get the point :-)


 - Jonas

-- 
 * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt
 * Tlf.: +45 40843136  Website: http://dr.jones.dk/

 [x] quote me freely  [ ] ask before reusing  [ ] keep private
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 833 bytes
Desc: signature
URL: <http://alioth-lists.debian.net/pipermail/pkg-fonts-devel/attachments/20210308/a4ec0ab8/attachment.sig>