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

Clemens Ladisch clemens at ladisch.de
Mon Jan 11 21:02:46 CET 2016


Liam Girdwood wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-01-11 at 16:07 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
>> J6rg Steffens wrote:
>>> 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")).
>>
>> [...]
>> OTOH, if we all agree with renaming to something less likely
>> conflicting, I'm all fine with it.
>
> What about prefixing "alsa" or "a" to to bat ?

Why not calling it basic-audio-test (like speaker-test)?


Regards,
Clemens


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