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Re: Self-conflicts and self-depends



Il giorno lun, 24/07/2006 alle 23.22 +0200, Jan C. Nordholz ha scritto:
> > unison:
> >   Conflicts on unison (<< 2.9.1-3)
> 
> I guess this is meant to prevent older versions of unison and unison2.9.1
> (which Provides: unison) from being installed together (the same holds
> for unison-gtk).

If unison2.9.1 conflicts with unison and provides unison, that is enough
and there is no need for unison to conflict with himself.

Il giorno lun, 24/07/2006 alle 23.22 +0100, martin f krafft ha scritto: 
> An upgrade is the same as removing the old and installing the new
> package, so other than maintainer script invocations (which will
> differ if the old package was removed because of a conflict),
> I don't see a difference. Of course, dpkg wouldn't let you a package
> if it created a conflict, so yeah... no point...

If nobody disagree, I'll start filing bug reports for the packages
listed in the first email of the thread and I'll bug lintian to add a
check for this case.

Thanks,

-- 
Fabio Tranchitella <kobold@debian.org>                        .''`.
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