Bug#592687: debbugs-local vs. local-debbugs?

On Wed, 11 Aug 2010, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> right after installing debbugs-local, I had to resort to using dpkg -L
> on it to determine which files it installed, given man debbugs[tab]
> wasn't finding anything. Any particular reason to have different names
> for package and binary?
> 
> Not that it's important, just wondering whether that's on purpose. ;)

Yeah, it's on purpose. It's a local debbugs version, thus
local-debbugs; the package namespace, though, is debbugs, thus
debbugs-local.

However, given that at least four people have asked this very same
question, it seems clear that it's not obvious to anyone else, so I
probably need to drop in a debbugs-local symlink.


Don Armstrong

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