Bug#857596: steam: Ships same files as Valve's official packages with different package name

Dominik George nik at naturalnet.de
Mon Mar 13 02:17:11 UTC 2017


> Ideas for Solutions
> --------------------------
> I think this will need coordination with the Valve packager to resolve this.
> 
> 1. Maybe Valve could adopt the same package split as the Debian package.
> For Valve's purposes, they might not like having more than one package
> to distribute though.
> 
> 2. Maybe the Debian package could be unsplit and renamed to
> steam-launcher to match what Valve is distributing.

3. Any package out there might ship any file also shipped in any Debian package, so don't do anything. This is not a bug.



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