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| From | davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.user |
| Subject | Re: column - how to get it updated? |
| Date | 2019-07-26 05:00 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <ynYCB-7zw-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <ynCVr-2Bo-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <ynDRv-3ex-1@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
On Thu, 25 Jul 2019, Richard Hector wrote: > On 25/07/19 3:26 PM, Andrew Punnett wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Debian currently uses the `column` command from FreeBSD. However, >> the `column` command included in the util-linux package from the >> Linux Kernel Organisation is much more useful. >> >> There is a bug report about this at >> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=908975, which >> ends with the Debian util-linux package maintainer stating: [SNIPPED, in order to insert immediately-prior context from bugreport] "If you want the bsdutils to provide (util-linux version of) the tools you need to convince the bsdmainutils maintainers that they should stop shipping theirs, since we can't have file collisions between different packages (ie. debian policy forbids two different packages to provide the same file)." >> "Until you've convinced the bsdmainutils maintainers we should >> change to the util-linux versions, there's nothing that can be done >> on the util-linux/bsdutils side - thus the wontfix tag." >> >> How can we persuade the Debian bsdmainutils package maintainers to >> allow the Linux version of column to be shipped? > > Can't they all get along by using /etc/alternatives? I don't think file collisions are the kind of thing the debian alternatives system is meant to solve. -- The day will come | Last words, August Spies (1855--1887). When our silence will be | Hanged, by the U.S. state of Illinois, More powerful than | alongside fellow journalists The voices you strangle today | Adolf Fischer and Albert Parsons.
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column - how to get it updated? Andrew Punnett <andrew.punnett@gmail.com> - 2019-07-25 05:50 +0200
Re: column - how to get it updated? Kenneth Parker <sea7kenp@gmail.com> - 2019-07-25 06:10 +0200
Re: column - how to get it updated? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-07-25 14:30 +0200
Re: column - how to get it updated? Richard Hector <richard@walnut.gen.nz> - 2019-07-25 06:50 +0200
Re: column - how to get it updated? davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2019-07-26 05:00 +0200
Re: column - how to get it updated? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-07-26 06:30 +0200
Re: column - how to get it updated? Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2019-07-26 07:30 +0200
Re: column - how to get it updated? davidson <davidson@freevolt.org> - 2019-07-26 14:30 +0200
Re: column - how to get it updated? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2019-07-26 18:40 +0200
Re: column - how to get it updated? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-07-26 10:00 +0200
Re: column - how to get it updated? Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2019-07-26 14:40 +0200
Re: column - how to get it updated? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2019-07-26 15:00 +0200
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