[DRE-maint] Bug#722662: yorick and gist: error when trying to install together

[Thibaut Paumard]

Le 13/09/2013 08:43, Ralf Treinen a écrit :
> Package: gist,yorick
> Version: gist/4.0.3-2
> Version: yorick/2.2.02+dfsg-6+b1
> Severity: serious
> User: treinen at debian.org
> Usertags: edos-file-overwrite
> 
> Date: 2013-09-13
> Architecture: amd64
> Distribution: sid
> 
> Here is a list of files that are known to be shared by both packages
> (according to the Contents file for sid/amd64, which may be
> slightly out of sync):
> 
>   /usr/bin/gist
>   /usr/share/man/man1/gist.1.gz
> 

Hi,

/usr/bin/gist has been in the Yorick package for about 15 years. It is a
user interface. It's a viewer for Computer Graphics Metafile (CGM) files.

What is this ruby gist thing? How popular is it and is it supposed to be
called by the user?

Regards, Thibaut.