[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#813972: libncl-dev and libncarg-dev: error when trying to install together

[Andreas Tille]

Hi Mark,

thanks a lot for the ultra fast response.

Could you come up with a better renaming suggestion and may be also put
the original author in CC?

Its to bad to have two different scientific data formats with the same
name.  I wonder whether there is some typical prefix of suffix to
differentiate these formats like bio-nexus or genome-nexus / nexus-bio
or nexus-genome.

Kind regards

       Andreas.

On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 01:40:59PM -0600, Mark Holder wrote:
> Hi,
> In principle, I don't object to renaming it. libnexus is already used
> for a different tool. see https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libnexus/
> 
> I'm not the original author of NCL. I'm just the maintainer. So that
> makes me a little leery about changing the name of the library.
> 
> Mark
> 
> On Sun, Feb 14, 2016 at 1:09 PM, Andreas Tille <andreas at an3as.eu> wrote:
> > Hi Mark,
> >
> > the Debian Med team has packaged your NCL library for the Debian
> > distribution.  We received a bug report that there is a naming conflict
> > with
> >
> >     http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/
> >
> > My suggestion to solve this conflict would be to rename libncl to
> > libnexus.  In my opinion it would make sense to rename it in general
> > since it is a more speaking name than ncl.
> >
> > What do you think?
> >
> > Kind regards and thanks for providing this code as free software
> >
> >      Andreas.
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Feb 07, 2016 at 09:17:17AM +0100, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> This is a serious bug as it makes installation fail, and violates
> >> sections 7.6.1 and 10.1 of the policy. An optimal solution would
> >> consist in only one of the packages installing that file, and renaming
> >> or removing the file in the other package. Depending on the
> >> circumstances you might also consider Replace relations or file
> >> diversions. If the conflicting situation cannot be resolved then, as a
> >> last resort, the two packages have to declare a mutual
> >> Conflict. Please take into account that Replaces, Conflicts and
> >> diversions should only be used when packages provide different
> >> implementations for the same functionality.
> >>
> >> Here is a list of files that are known to be shared by both packages
> >> (according to the Contents file for sid/amd64, which may be
> >> slightly out of sync):
> >>
> >>   /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libncl.a
> >>
> >> This bug has been filed against both packages. If you, the maintainers of
> >> the two packages in question, have agreed on which of the packages will
> >> resolve the problem please reassign the bug to that package. You may then
> >> also register in the BTS that the other package is affected by the bug.
> >>
> >> -Ralf.
> >>
> >> PS: for more information about the detection of file overwrite errors
> >> of this kind see http://qa.debian.org/dose/file-overwrites.html.
> >>
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