[Pkg-javascript-devel] Request for policy interpretation: procedure and possible outcomes for naming conflicts

[Patrick Ouellette]

On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 11:51:30AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> 
> IMHO, /usr/bin/node is much too generic a name to be in any package.
> 

Too generic or not, /usr/sbin/node has been in Debian since at least 1999
(13 or so years now).

I'm also sure there are many other projects using similarly generic names -
Bind's  named comes to mind.

Pat