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

Brian May brian at microcomaustralia.com.au
Tue Oct 28 00:59:50 UTC 2008


Steffen Möller wrote:
> Teodor happened to have nicely explained my objections to rename plink.
>   

Except what he said is wrong, puttygen hasn't been renamed.

> Dear Colin, if you don't mind too much, or if you could be bribed with a
> few beers, please be so kind to rename the plink binary package.
>   

If we rename plink in putty (I think that is what you are asking?), that 
it going to make our version of putty inconsistent with every other 
putty package out there. This program is often used by scripts, they 
will break too.

Brian May





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