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Date: Wed, 19 Feb 97 19:48 GMT
From: Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
To: Debian bugs submission address <submit@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: debmake contains /usr/bin/done !!!! and other namespace pollution

Package: debmake
Version: 3.2.0

/usr/bin/done ?!  I suppose we'll have /usr/bin/if and /usr/bin/exec
next.  This really is quite staggering, even by the standards I've
come to expect in debmake &c.  If I say any more about this I'm going
to become extremely rude, so I'll stop now.

Generally, debmake has quite the worst case of namespace pollution
I've seen since mh (and at least mh requires you to put a special
directory on your path).

The binaries
 uscan uupdate debi debc release todo done build debpkg dch debstdo
should all be renamed.

debstd ought to have been called something different, but that's
probably too late to fix now.

Ian.

-chiark:~> dpkg --contents /csunix-export1/debian/unstable/binary-i386/utils/debmake_3.2.0.deb 
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 Feb 18 04:59 1997 ./
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 Feb 18 04:59 1997 usr/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 Feb 18 05:00 1997 usr/bin/
-rwxr-xr-x root/root      2354 Feb 18 04:59 1997 usr/bin/uscan
-rwxr-xr-x root/root      4282 Feb 18 04:59 1997 usr/bin/uupdate
-rwxr-xr-x root/root       536 Feb 18 04:59 1997 usr/bin/debi
-rwxr-xr-x root/root       566 Feb 18 04:59 1997 usr/bin/debc
-rwxr-xr-x root/root      2956 Feb 18 04:59 1997 usr/bin/release
-rwxr-xr-x root/root      3346 Feb 18 04:59 1997 usr/bin/deb-make
-rwxr-xr-x root/root     17805 Feb 18 04:59 1997 usr/bin/debstd
-rwxr-xr-x root/root      2799 Feb 18 04:59 1997 usr/bin/debchange
-rwxr-xr-x root/root      1072 Feb 18 04:59 1997 usr/bin/debconf
-rwxr-xr-x root/root      1430 Feb 18 04:59 1997 usr/bin/debsums
-rwxr-xr-x root/root      4258 Feb 18 04:59 1997 usr/bin/deblint
-rwxr-xr-x root/root     16397 Feb 18 04:59 1997 usr/bin/debstdo
-rwxr-xr-x root/root       263 Feb 18 04:59 1997 usr/bin/debclean
-rwxr-xr-x root/root      1066 Feb 18 04:59 1997 usr/bin/todo
-rwxr-xr-x root/root      1275 Feb 18 04:59 1997 usr/bin/done
-rwxr-xr-x root/root      3760 Feb 18 05:00 1997 usr/bin/build
-rwxr-xr-x root/root      3196 Feb 18 05:00 1997 usr/bin/debpkg
lrwxrwxrwx root/root         0 Feb 18 04:59 1997 usr/bin/dch -> debchange
...
-chiark:~>