Re: Package conflicts outside of Extra
On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 02:21:56PM -0400 , Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Petr Cech <cech@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> writes:
>
> > but it may be conflicts with
> > 1) older versions of a package (in case of replaced functionality)
> > 2) renamed package
> > 3) any other reason I forgot
>
> The conflicts may well be important conflicts. I do not propose
> removing important conflicts.
OK
> But it is already required be the policy manual that if two packages
> conflict, one of the must be in Extra. This is a good thing, and it
> has nothing to do with the reasons for the conflict.
so take libc6
Package: libc6
Version: 2.1.3-10
Priority: required
Section: base
Maintainer: Joel Klecker <debian-glibc@lists.debian.org>
Pre-Depends: ldso (>= 1.9.11-2.1)
Recommends: locales
Suggests: glibc-doc
Conflicts: libc5 (<< 5.4.33-7), libpthread0 (<< 0.7-10), timezone, timezones,
libwcsmbs, libc6-doc, libtricks, apt (<< 0.3.0), libglib1.2 (<< 1.2.1-2),
libc6-bin, gconv-modules
Provides: gconv-modules
Replaces: timezone, timezones, libc6-dev (<< 2.0.110-1), libc6-bin, locales
(<< 2.1.3-5), gconv-modules
Architecture: i386
according to you, apt and libglib1.2 should go to extra, right?
Petr Cech
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