Bug#274792: Reported file conflict

[M Joonas Pihlaja]

Hello,

On Tue, 5 Oct 2004, Gunnar Wolf wrote:

> I would like (not suprrising, I guess) the file to be renamed in
> shapelib, if possible. The reason for this is that libdbd-xbase-perl
> is a package specifically made to use DBF files, while AFAICT shapelib
> only uses it for exporting - The dbf* programs are not even documented
> (bug #148037missing manpage).

Accompanying DBF files are essential to shape files in that they
contain attribute data of the shapes.  Regarding renaming of
dbfdump in shapelib, I have to disagree because it would break at
least our production systems on the next update/upgrade cycle.

(Hadn't noticed the missing man pages issue though.  If Debian is
interested I can provide some tomorrow.)

> By the way, regarding that bug: Proably the programs should be
> located in another directory, as
> /usr/share/doc/shapelib/examples or something like that...

I would agree with this if they were a part of libshp1-dev, but
they're split off into their own shapelib package.

Having said all that, I'm really looking forward to
libdbi-xbase-perl.


Best Regards,

Joonas Pihlaja