Re: [bug-mailutils] [courier-users] Name collision

[Jordi Mallach]

El dt. 19 de 02 de 2019 a les 09:03 +0300, en/na Eray Aslan va
escriure:
> On Mon, Feb 18, 2019 at 12:47:16PM +0400, Sergey wrote:
> > > both packaged distributions attempt to create the executable
> > > file /usr/local/sbin/pop3d. 
> > 
> > Correctly. Why should it be otherwise?
> 
> To have both installed to make switching on the fly easier.  Or to
> have
> both running but on different ports.  Or ...
> 
> > You should split mailutils package to subpackages and must not
> > install mailutils-pop3d, mailutils-imap4d (for example) and other
> > unneeded.
> 
> That's presumptuous.  There are a lot of systems out there operating
> in
> way too many environments.  This advice makes too many assumptions.
> 
> Being considerate of downstream / users is never a bad idea.

Sergey already told you how to properly rename the binary at build
time.

It is common that distributions make one imap server conflict with the
rest.

In Debian:

Package: courier-imap
Provides: imap-server
Conflicts: imap-server

Package: cyrus-imapd
Provides: imap-server
Conflicts: imap-server


Package: mailutils-imap4d
Provides: imap-server
Conflicts: imap-server

And yes, splitting the package sounds very reasonable to me.

Jordi
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