Re: column - how to get it updated?

From	Curt <curty@free.fr>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: column - how to get it updated?
Date	2019-07-26 15:00 +0200
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On 2019-07-26, Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:
>> 
>> That this stumbling block presents an insurmountable challenge to the
>> development community defies the intellectual capacities of your
>> admittedly naive correspondent.
>
> It's not insurmountable.  The package maintainers simply have to work
> together and decide how to handle the situation.  If both of them rename
> their "column" commands, then the alternatives system can be employed.
>

Teemu Likonen has just now suggested, in an addendum to bug # 908975,
"/usr/bin/bcolumn (bsdmainutils) and /usr/bin/lcolumn (linux-util)," a
fair and dignified solution to the conflict which should satisfy all
parties (though you never know, do you), and one perfectly amenable to
the /etc/alternatives system.

-- 
“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.” 
― Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan

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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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