https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1246790 --- Comment #16 from Michael Schwendt (Fedora Packager Sponsors Group) <bugs.michael@xxxxxxx> --- > However I can't parse the abbreviation of this mdp package. "Mot de Passe" https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/MDP -> https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mot_de_passe > This all makes me sad. Rest assured, conflicts don't have much potential to make many people *happy*. Conflicts are highly dangerous. Imagine the infamous scenario where a conflicting package is pulled in via a dependency-chain. Hell breaks lose. Especially embarrassing if this is discovered during the attempt of installing the distribution. If during review somebody points out a potential conflict of packages or files, at least there ought to be an attempt at making the fundamental problem known to the upstream author(s). Some upstreams do understand the problem and offer a better name. A less generic name. Other upstreams consider it to be entirely the packager's responsibility to deal with conflicts at the distribution level. That may even involve renaming of files everywhere within a package -- which can result in a herculean task for large/huge packages. Fedora's guidelines cannot offer much. The problem is not simple. Especially not with CLI programs in a shared $PATH and with potentially conflicting file names. No further comments from me in this ticket. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. You are always notified about changes to this product and component _______________________________________________ package-review mailing list package-review@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-review