[GRASS-dev] grass70 package name

Francesco P. Lovergine frankie at debian.org
Sat Feb 21 09:00:33 PST 2015


On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 05:47:19PM +0100, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> 
> What changes do you propose for the official Debian package to allow the
> co-existence with the GRASS upstream packages?
> [...]
> The /usr/bin/grass to grass70 & grass71 executable in grass-core would
> conflict between these packages. But IIRC the upstream GRASS packages
> don't contain that symlink. The same may apply to the x-grass script,
> but thank may get fixed when I address the issue raised by Martin [1].
> 
> [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-gis/2015/02/msg00047.html
> 

Adopting alternatives mechanism for grass, x-grass.sh and manpages would
probably suffices. I'm not sure if that would really solve a true user's need,
or it is only superfluous trick. 

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Francesco P. Lovergine


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