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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