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Re: Many executables across Debian's archives share basenames

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On Thu, 05 Oct 2017, Kamil Cholewiński wrote:
> I wrote a short script that calls "apt-file find 'bin/'", filters
> results to include only stuff from /bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin, and
> looks for basename clashes. Turns out, in Stretch, there are 97 hits.
> (If you also include /usr/games, 126.)

> (Of couse, I'm counting all packages, regardless of whether they specify
> "Conflicts:" or not, and regardless of whether the full name is shared,
> or just the basename.)
> 
> For example, packages "389-ds-base" and "dmucs", both provie a command
> called "monitor". The former's command is located in /usr/sbin, the
> latter's in /usr/bin. Neither package conflicts with the other.

This is sounds like a bug in both packages; monitor is way too generic
to be a name.

Everything under point 1 sounds like a bug, and probably needs a
mass-bug filing (but that should be discussed on
debian-devel@lists.debian.org, not here.)

> 2. (I know this is crazy, unsupported, violates FHS, kills kittens, and
>    I'm actually Asking For Trouble by doing this, but whatever.) I can't
>    safely symlink /sbin to /bin, and I can't do a /usr -> / either.

Part of the goal for this is being tracked in
https://wiki.debian.org/UsrMerge, and is a release goal (and the
default).

There should only be a few packages with outstanding bugs in this case:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=usrmerge;users=md@linux.it

In theory, you should be able to install usrmerge, and things should
"just work™".


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Many executables across Debian's archives share basenames harry666t@gmail.com (Kamil Cholewiński) - 2017-10-05 22:30 +0200
  Re: Many executables across Debian's archives share basenames Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> - 2017-10-05 22:40 +0200
    Re: Many executables across Debian's archives share basenames Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2017-10-06 00:20 +0200
      Re: Many executables across Debian's archives share basenames <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-10-06 09:00 +0200
        Re: Many executables across Debian's archives share basenames Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-10-06 15:00 +0200
          Re: Many executables across Debian's archives share basenames Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> - 2017-10-06 15:30 +0200
            Re: Many executables across Debian's archives share basenames <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-10-06 15:50 +0200
              Re: Many executables across Debian's archives share basenames Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2017-10-13 14:00 +0200
                Re: Many executables across Debian's archives share basenames <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-10-13 14:40 +0200
            Re: Many executables across Debian's archives share basenames Jerome BENOIT <calculus@rezozer.net> - 2017-10-06 16:30 +0200
              Re: Many executables across Debian's archives share basenames <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2017-10-06 16:40 +0200
          Re: Many executables across Debian's archives share basenames Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2017-10-06 23:20 +0200
      Re: Many executables across Debian's archives share basenames Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> - 2017-10-13 14:00 +0200

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