Re: intent to package: sendpage

["Brendan O'Dea" <bod@compusol.com.au>]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 10:27:28AM -0500, Preston Smith wrote:
>On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 07:23:04PM +1100, Brendan O'Dea (bod@compusol.com.au) wrote:
>> 
>> Be aware that a sendpage binary currently exists in the hylafax-client
>> package.
>> 
>
> I am aware of that, and am looking at what to do about it. As far as I
> can tell there are two things that can be done:
>
> Change the name of the binaries to something like sendpage-client and 
> sendpaged to remove the name overlap, 
>
> or use a Conflicts: dependency, not allow this package to be installed if
> hylafax-client already is. 

I would suggest having both hylafax-client and sendpage provide a
`sendpage' alternative.

This will require co-operation from the hylafax maintainer, and you
should probably also provide a Conflicts:  for previous versions of
hylafax-client.

Regards,
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Brendan O'Dea                                        bod@compusol.com.au
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