Bug#450915: file conflicts between packages

Russ Allbery rra at debian.org
Tue Nov 13 01:06:42 UTC 2007


Kapil Hari Paranjape <kapil at imsc.res.in> writes:

> Seriously, there seem to be (at least) two solutions:

> 	1. We can rename the /usr/bin/par from one of the two
> 	packages. Here the "par" package seems to be the older kid on
> 	the block.

> 	2. We can rename both the /usr/bin/par to something else and
> 	use documentation to inform users.

Please don't take path 2.  The par binary name is hard-coded into the vim
scripts and finger memory of many, many people.  :)

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>





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