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Originally Posted by Mentalist Traceur View Post
Can you clarify why you thought having this name-conflict with traceroute in the SDK repos is a problem?
I would have to request to become a maintainer of the traceroute package, and who would respond to that request?
Also, I didn't think we could update packages from the official repositories (although I'm not clear whether SDK counts as official).

Originally Posted by Mentalist Traceur View Post
Sidenote: It /might/ be a good idea to have it do a dpkg diversion of the likely to conflict filepaths, such as /usr/bin/traceroute and /usr/bin/traceroute6. As is it clobbered my busybox-power symlinks at those paths when it uninstalled (I think it's better to have such diverts set up, esp. for busybox-power, because they can coexist just fine, they just both want to use the same path names).
Would it be better to fix this in busybox-power?
Does the same happen if you install traceroute from the SDK?
 

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