[GRASS-dev] grass70 package name

[Sebastiaan Couwenberg]

On 02/21/2015 07:54 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg wrote:
> On 02/21/2015 06:00 PM, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote:
>> 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. 
> 
> If we all drop /usr/bin/grass & /usr/bin/x-grass the packages should be
> able to co-exist. I've dropped these from the official Debian package.

I've reinstated these symlinks, and will rely on the Conflicts with the
upstream grass7* packages to force the user to choose whose packages it
wants to use.

Kind Regards,

Bas

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