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

[Alex Mestiashvili]

On 8/26/25 7:20 PM, Chris Hofstaedtler wrote:
> 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.

Here is the merge request which suppose to rename /usr/bin/gearmand to 
/usr/bin/gearmand-perl in the gearman-server package

Best,
Alex

> 
> Thanks,
> Chris