#1098989 bsdgames: growing name clashes in PATH

Package:
bsdgames
Source:
bsdgames
Description:
collection of classic textual unix games
Submitter:
Chris Hofstaedtler
Date:
2025-02-27 00:24:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1098989#5
Date:
2025-02-27 00:21:35 UTC
From:
To:
Hello,

bsdgames ships a lot of programs with short names, since basically
forever. These names are now getting coopted by new sources.

Because bsdgames installs its programs into /usr/games, and other
packages tend to install into /usr/bin, these problems are usually
not detected, or way too late.

From a discussion in bug 1098948, these problems were identified
today:

monop - also installed by mono-devel, #444962
morse - also installed by morse, #789523
primes - also installed by libmath-prime-util-perl
rot13 - also installed by hxtools
worms - also installed by raster3d

Regarding rot13, #576156 asked to move the bsdgames program into
/usr/bin.

Personally I think it would be good to resolve these name conflicts
and install all bsdgames programs into /usr/bin.

Chris