[Bug 242310] Review Request: moreutils - Additional unix utilities

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Summary: Review Request: moreutils - Additional unix utilities


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=242310





------- Additional Comments From rc040203 at freenet.de  2007-06-26 04:16 EST -------
(In reply to comment #7)
> I appreciate your comments.
> moreutils has been in debian for some time and is now also in the ubuntu repo 
> and as such the names already have some "history" behind them.
This only means their QA has failed to recognize the potential dangers and has
slipped through a package they better should not ship.

> On the one hand there is the issue of the "likely to clash" names but IMO it 
> would be more important in this case to keep the names consistant with both 
> upstream and with the equivalent package in the other distros.
I think it would be appropriate to notify upstream to have their choices
revisited and not to include this package until upstream has fixed them.


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