Bug#755127: unnecessary conflict with libgcv5

[Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>]

Control: severity -1 important

Am 19.07.2014 14:40, schrieb Michael Biebl:
> reopen 755127 thanks
> 
> Am 19.07.2014 14:18, schrieb Matthias Klose:
>>> There doesn't seem to be any file conflict, making this conflict
>>> arbitrary.
>> 
>> wrong, the plugins conflict.
>> 
>>> libgvc6 conflicts against libgvc5.
>> 
>> yes, I don't see a good way to upgrade. you could split out the plugins,
>> but then what kind of worth has libgvc5?  It's my understanding that the
>> library itself is unusable without the basic plugins.
> 
> You don't need to split the plugins, you can put them in a so-versioned 
> directory, e.g. /usr/lib/<packagename>

Sure, and keeping the plugins in a directory which probably is not expected by
third party plugins.

> Reopening, since this issue is not fixed.

As you like it, however it is not a RC issue, policy 8.1 doesn't require
conflict-free upgrades.

I prefer the layout as currently done, and will defer any other changes to a
new maintainer.

  Matthias