Bug#768388: csound,cs: error when trying to install together

[Felipe Sateler]

On Thu, Nov 6, 2014 at 9:10 PM, Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org> wrote:
> Package: csound,cs
> Version: 1:6.03.2~dfsg-1
> Severity: serious
> User: treinen at debian.org
> Usertags: edos-file-overwrite
>
> Architecture: amd64
> Distribution: sid
>
> Hi,
>
> automatic installation tests of packages that share a file and at the
> same time do not conflict by their package dependency relationships has
> detected the following problem:
>
>   Selecting previously unselected package cs.
>   Preparing to unpack .../archives/cs_0.5.7-1_all.deb ...
>   Unpacking cs (0.5.7-1) ...
>   dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/cs_0.5.7-1_all.deb (--unpack):
>    trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/cs', which is also in package csound 1:6.03.2~dfsg-1
>   Processing triggers for mime-support (3.57) ...
>   Errors were encountered while processing:
>    /var/cache/apt/archives/cs_0.5.7-1_all.deb


It looks like there is another utility named cs[1]. Would it make
sense to rename csound utilities to have less generic names? We
already rename in debian the extract tool, as it conflicts with
another one named the same.


[1] https://github.com/exoscale/cs


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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler