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Re: column - how to get it updated?

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On Fri 26 Jul 2019 at 02:57:40 (+0000), davidson wrote:
> 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.

That's news to me. I was under the impression that /etc/alternatives
is the mechanism by which "rename" can be used for two different
commands, prename and file-rename, which would otherwise collide
with the name /usr/bin/rename.

(I realise that, as of stretch, one of these versions of rename becomes
deprecated and will be withdrawn in future, but it's the example that
comes immediately to mind because they've been around for many years.)

$ rename
Usage:
    rename [ -h|-m|-V ] [ -v ] [ -n ] [ -f ] [ -e|-E perlexpr]*|perlexpr
    [ files ]

$ rename # having just removed package rename
Deprecated program in use: rename as shipped with the Debian perl
package will be removed after the release of stretch. Please install
the separate 'rename' package which will provide the same command.

Usage: rename [-v] [-n] [-f] perlexpr [filenames]
$ 

Cheers,
David.

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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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