Bug#1076226: gearman-server, gearman-job-server: install program with same name (gearmand)

[Chris Hofstaedtler]

Control: severity -1 serious

On Mon, Mar 03, 2025 at 03:27:20PM +0100, Alex Mestiashvili wrote:
> On 2/26/25 16:48, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 12, 2024 at 08:32:40PM +0200, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> > > your packages gearman-server and gearman-job-server both install a program
> > > named "gearmand", although in different components of the PATH.
> > > 
> > > As this is confusing and a possible source of bugs, policy bug
> > > #1075856 wants to outlaw this.
> > 
> > Did you manage to get to a solution? The policy change has landed in
> > the meantime.
> 
> As a potential solution, I believe renaming /usr/bin/gearmand from
> gearman-server package to /usr/bin/gearmand.pl and adjusting start scripts
> should resolve the issue.
> If there are no better ideas, I'll go with it.

That sounds reasonable to me. Was it implemented?

In the meantime I'm raising the severity of these bugs to serious, 
so forky will be released without these policy violations.

Thanks,
Chris