[alsa-devel] bat: naming conflict in distribution packages with Bareos/Bacula

[Takashi Iwai]

Hi,

sorry for the late response, as this post buried behind many Christmas
tree decorations...

On Wed, 23 Dec 2015 12:59:55 +0100,
J6rg Steffens wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> my name is Jörg Steffens and I'm one of the maintainers of the Bareos
> backup software project. Bareos is a fork Bacula.
> 
> Bareos includes a GUI program called bat (bareos administration tool).
> bat have been around since 2007.
> 
> alsa-utils as well as bareos-bat (as well a some Bacula packages) all
> contain a program called /usr/bin/bat, which causes conflicts on various
> distributions ("basic audio tester" vs "bareos administration tool"
> ("bacula administration tool")).
> See http://pkgs.org/search//usr/bin/bat
> 
> We received a bug report/feature request
> https://bugs.bareos.org/view.php?id=576 from Michel, the maintainer of
> Bareos for Arch Linux about how to solve the naming conflict with we
> latest ALSA 1.1.0.
> 
> I wanted to raise the question, if you are aware of this potential
> problem? Maybe you have guidelines for package maintainers how to solve
> this.
> Some distributions have separated "basic audio tester" from the
> alsa-utils package, like Fedora with alsa-utils-bat.
> I think, this will work out well, as I assume "basic audio tester" is
> not stricly required on all systems. "bareos administration tool" at
> least is optional and typical installed on administrative workstations.

It's bad to have such a naming conflict, indeed.  This wasn't
intentional, of course.

I, as one of maintainers, am neutral about renaming: if other people
prefer keeping this, I'd say simply to push this to each distro
packager.  How to solve such an issue pretty depends on the
distribution.  And they (must) know well such a case.

OTOH, if we all agree with renaming to something less likely
conflicting, I'm all fine with it.  It's a new program, so not too
much impact yet by a rename, I suppose.

Let's first ask Intel people who are the author of our BAT.


thanks,

Takashi