On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 06:54, Sebastian Ley wrote: > Hi all, > > presently we have two two (at least) javascript libraries in debian, > one NGS javascript interpreter and one from the spidermonkey > interpreter. Upstream, both parties use libjs as library name. With > the NGS interpreter being first packaged for debian, the maintainer of > the spidermonkey libs chose to rename the library to libsmjs. That is > now highly inconvenient for me, building a package against the > library, because I have to patch the upstream sources to use the new > name for the library. > > What would be a good way to deal with the situation? Is it sufficient > to let both packages conflict with each other? Zounds.... This sounds like a job for our Super Hero:\ "update-alternatives" And having both packages use unique names and then you choose your alternative. -- greg@gregfolkert.net REMEMBER ED CURRY! http://www.iwethey.org/ed_curry
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