Bug#857596: steam: Ships same files as Valve's official packages with different package name

[Jeremy Bicha]

On Sun, Mar 19, 2017 at 2:23 PM, Michael Gilbert <mgilbert at debian.org> wrote:
> They should Breaks both steam and steam-devices, that way if the user
> really wanted to switch to Valve's they avert this weird leap
> frogging.

It sounds like you're saying that Valve's package ought to have a
different binary package name.

That is one way to resolve this, but then there are two different
Steam packages in the Software app (installed by default in Debian
GNOME stretch; KDE has a similar app). One installed and one not
installed which feels confusing to me.

I'm also having trouble thinking of any other example where we want a
developer to ship their app with a different name than how it's
packaged in Debian.

Jeremy