Fedora rpm packaging of pybtex

I hacked the SUSE spec file (hack attached) and finally think I got my hacked version to work with Fedora. This was my first attempt creating an RPM package so I think any redistribution or use should carry a heavy at your risk warning. See

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_a_GNU_Hello_RPM_package

for basic instructions on this.

But one problem remains -- the executable pybtex conflicts with a file installed by pybliographer which has a script called pybtex (to installed in /usr/bin)* I u

Any sugestions on where to go from here hacking the pybtex spec file (perhaps changing the executable name of pybtex which goes into /usr/bin/pybtex.) Admittedly this is sort of a backwards

Michael

*This bad packaging by pybliographer was reported as a bug in 2009:

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=540529

and apparently addressed using "alternatives"

** I actually use Pybliographer which has some useful capabilities but the project seems to have been on "life-support" for a long time. So I don't want to resolve the conflict by uninstalling the package as a whole or even overwriting the pybtex script

This really is a Pybliographer bug but I doubt it will be fixed (see above) -- in any case because the pybliographic package is already in Fedora "professional" effort would probably have find a solution in pybtex

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