[Hostname-devel] Bug#546753: hostname: /bin/nisdomainname belongs to package NIS

[Cristian Greco]

On Tue, Sep 15, 2009 at 03:50:48PM +0200, Martin Clauss wrote:

> Package: hostname
> Version: 2.96
> Severity: important
> 
> 
> Recent version includes /bin/nisdomainname, which does not belong to this
> package, but to package NIS as far as I see...
> 
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/hostname_2.97_alpha.deb
> (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite '/bin/nisdomainname', which is also in package nis
> 0:3.17-28

Hi Martin,

we'll try to fix this as soon as we decide what to do with #501005 (i.e. if we
should provide this name alias at all).

Thanks,
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Cristian Greco
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