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

Adam D. Barratt adam at adam-barratt.org.uk
Sat Oct 25 17:48:28 UTC 2008


On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 20:18 +0300, Teodor wrote:
> Since renaming seems to be the only solution, than IMO it is more
> appropriate to rename 'plink' in putty-tools than in the plink
> packages since this is exactly the source/binary package name.
[...]
> This has been done already in putty-tools for the 'puttygen' binary.
[...]
> piti:~# dpkg -L putty-tools
> [snip]
> /usr/bin/pscp
> /usr/bin/psftp
> /usr/bin/plink
> /usr/bin/puttygen

Erm, puttygen isn't renamed. That's what the upstream binary is known as
and has been ever since its creation more than four years ago (although
more often puttygen.exe for predictable reasons).

Adam





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