[Bug 523311] [NEW] pbzip2 should be able to replace bzip2

[Bogdan Butnaru]

Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: pbzip2

Although pbzip2 claims to be a complete replacement of bzip2, it can't
be used like that on a normal Ubuntu system without a lot of hackery.
The reason is that the normal bzip2 is a dependency of lots of packages,
so it can't be easily removed.

Ideally there should be a package (say, pbzip2-replacement) that depends
on pbzip2, and which replaces bzip2, such that its installation removes
bzip2 but satisfies all dependencies on it. This would only add a
symlink from bzip2 to pbzip2, or something like that.

Though since bzip2 is by default installed in /bin and pbzip2 in
/usr/bin, there might be a bit more to it than that. Also, the
alternatives system might be appropriate.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Feb 17 18:24:27 2010
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: pbzip2 1.0.5-1ubuntu1
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-20.57-generic
SourcePackage: pbzip2
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-20-generic x86_64

** Affects: pbzip2 (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: amd64 apport-bug

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