Bug#577638: mpich2: conflict over the mpd binary

[Lucas Nussbaum]

On 13/04/10 at 15:16 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 15:09:56 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> 
> > On 13/04/10 at 14:49 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 13:43:26 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > > 
> > > > So, there's no perfect solution, and I think that the current one
> > > > (assume that there's no common user of  music player daemon and mpich2)
> > > > is the best compromise.
> > > 
> > > I disagree that sweeping a serious policy violation under the carpet
> > > (and preventing co-installation of mpd and mpich in the process) can be
> > > qualified with 'best' anything.
> > 
> > So what do you propose?
> 
> Talk to the other package maintainer (and possibly upstreams).  Rename
> one or both binaries.

(Why did you file the bug against mpich2 only, then?)

Pavan, we have a problem: the Music Player Daemon already uses the "mpd"
binary name in Debian. I initially "solved" that by conflicting with the
mpd package, so both don't get installed together, but Julien Cristau is
now complaining that this isn't a correct solution.

It seems that the "correct" solution would be to rename the mpd binary
to something else in Debian. Which sucks because:
(1) it will confuse users. However, we can hope that most users are
controlling mpd with the mpd* commands.
(2) it is currently hard to change the name of the mpd binary in mpich2
(it is an hard assumption in mpd* that it is called mpd, and not
something else).

What do you think we should do?

I would like a solution to this to be found between the Ubuntu Lucid
hard freeze (Apr 26th) since I don't want users of Ubuntu Lucid and
Debian Squeeze to have a different behaviour for something so important.
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