[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#503367: Bug#503367: plink: file conflict with putty-tools

[Teodor]

On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Charles Plessy <plessy at debian.org> wrote:
> Since Plink is younger than Putty, I think that the burden of the
> renaming is for us (the Debian Med packaging team). I plan to rename
> /usr/bin/plink to /usr/bin/Plink, that would be a symbolic link to
> /usr/lib/plink/plink so that with an appropriate PATH, users can rescue
> their scripts.

This *upercase first letter* thinghy is no annoying and ugly ..

> But before doing so, I would like to ask the readers of debian-devel:
>
>  - if it is not a bad idea to have to programs whose name only differs by
>    case (do we support file systems à la Macintosh?),
>  - if they have a better idea in general.

IMO a simple "Conflicts: putty-tools" is enough. If they provide the
same functionality than an "alternative" is better than conflicting
with each other.

Cheers