Where to report a bug?

[Robert Heller]

At Mon, 10 Apr 2023 07:37:01 +0200 "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> On Sun, 2023-04-09 at 22:26 -0400, Robert Heller wrote:
> > bison++ supplies /usr/bin/bison++, NOT /usr/bin/bison.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> bison as well as bison++ provide
>   /usr/bin/bison
> and
>   /usr/share/man/man1/bison.1.gz
> see:
> 
> "File list of package bison++ in bionic of architecture amd64
> 
> /usr/bin/bison
> /usr/bin/bison++
> [snip]
> /usr/share/man/man1/bison.1.gz"
> - https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/amd64/bison++/filelist
> 
> "File list of package bison in bionic of architecture amd64
> 
> /usr/bin/bison
> [snip]
> /usr/share/man/man1/bison.1.gz" -
> https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic/amd64/bison/filelist
> 
> "File list of package bison++ in lunar of architecture amd64
> 
> /usr/bin/bison
> /usr/bin/bison++
> [snip]
> /usr/share/man/man1/bison.1.gz"
> - https://packages.ubuntu.com/lunar/amd64/bison++/filelist
> 
> "File list of package bison in lunar of architecture amd64
> 
> /usr/bin/bison
> [snip]
> /usr/share/man/man1/bison.1.gz"
> - https://packages.ubuntu.com/lunar/amd64/bison/filelist

It really shouldn't do that and in fact does not need to.  That is part of the 
"bug".  bison++ should only provide bison++, not bison.  The actual makefile 
does not produce bison or bison.1.  Those are artifacts of the packaging, 
which is in error.

I've had to create bison++ build packages for some O/S versions where bison++ 
was missing.  There isn't really any true reason that bison and bison++ cannot 
co-exist.

I guess I will just have to create and maintain my own packages and block both 
packages from auto updates.  I have a whole pile of machines that need this 
(one real x86_64 (Ubuntu), three VMs (also Ubuntu), a raspberry pi (Raspberry 
Pi OS [Debian 10], a banana pi m64 (Armbian 20.04), and an odroid m1 (Debian 
10).  

> 
> Regards,
> Ralf
> 

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