Re: Remove control field Conflicts if the package is no longer in the repository

["Giacomo A. Catenazzi" <cate@debian.org>]

Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 12 2009, Timur Birsh wrote:
>
> > Hello Debian Developers,
> >
> > I've recently uploaded (thanks to Bart Martens for sponsoring) my first 
> > package and want to adopt the next one. It's cd-discid [1]. Its 
> > debian/control file contains the Conflicts field. This package conflicts 
> > with cdgrab (<< 0.7), which is no longer exists in the repository. So, I 
> > have a question, may I remove Conflicts field safely?
>
>         I think that as long as the package (cdgrab, in this case) is
>  not longer in stable, the conflicts line may be removed (we support
>  partial upgrades from stable, as far as is possible). In this case,
>  apparently cdgrab is not anywhere, so the conflicts line may go.

Really it is still in the archive, but with an other name.
So I see two options:
- replace cdgrab (<< 0.7) with abcde (<< 0.7)
- remove the conflicts (because it is too old).

Notes:
The rename was done just before freezing potato, nearly 10 years ago.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/1999/11/msg00182.html

See also abcde changelog:
http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/a/abcde/abcde_2.3.99.8-1/changelog

ciao
	cate