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

[Alex Mestiashvili]

On 8/27/25 3:57 PM, Alex Mestiashvili wrote:
> 
> 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

the link: 
https://salsa.debian.org/perl-team/modules/packages/gearman-server/-/merge_requests/2