• Debian Policy 4.7.1.0 and program names

    From Vincent Lefevre@21:1/5 to Sean Whitton on Thu Feb 20 11:30:02 2025
    Hi,

    On 2025-02-20 17:51:40 +0800, Sean Whitton wrote:
    I just pushed version 4.7.1.0 of the Debian Policy Manual and related documents to the binary-NEW queue for sid.
    Below you will find the significant normative changes from the previously-announced release of Policy (4.7.0.0).
    [...]
    10.1
    Two different packages must not install programs with different
    functionality to the same filenames, even names under different
    directories, when the directories are on the default PATH.
    [...]

    What about existing packages with the same program name?

    For instance,

    https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/lam4-dev/filelist has
    /usr/bin/hcc

    and

    https://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/uhexen2/filelist has
    /usr/games/hcc

    and I'm quite sure that the hcc programs have different functionality.

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