Bug#274792: Reported file conflict

[Gunnar Wolf]

Hi,

> 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.

Ok... Well, I do not have such a strong objection, I think we can
rename or move ours. 

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

Yes, please do. In fact, that would close a very old bug shapelib has
(#148037).

Now, regarding Daniel's comments: I don't know... I don't think it is
quite worthy to create another package just for those two little
files. And although they _are_ useful by themselves (that is why
upstream separated it and indexdump.PL from the files in eg/), they
could just as well go in as examples. Now, there are some other Perl
library packages that also provide files in usr/bin, such as
libdbi-perl, libimage-size-perl and libwww-perl. I do not think we
should split this one just because of it.

Now, the obvious next step is: Any candidates for naming this file?
Maybe something as simple as dbf_dump and index_dump (I would like
them to be consistent)? Any ideas?

Greetings,

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