text: Christ. 2. If there is a disagreement about a bug report the bug should be left open while the discussion about it takes place. Otherwise the issue might be forgotten. If people agree with me on this it should be made policy. 3. This namespace pollution _is_ a bug, and the consensus of those commenting on it is that this is the case. All these binaries should be renamed to start with a common prefix. I would object to the use of the 'dpkg-' prefix. I suggest 'debmk-'. I shall reopen this bug while the discussion takes place. Ian. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to debian-devel-request@lists.debian.org . Trouble? e-mail to templin@bucknell.edu .