Conflicting packages not of extra priority.

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

Now that the current policy about optional and extra packages has been 
clarified by Ian Jackson:

http://www.de.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-policy-9902/msg00023.html

it may be worth to fix some of the priority values in slink to comply with
policy.

I created a list of conflicting packages, by using pkg-order and feeding
it with the set of required+important+standard+optional packages from
slink, plus some additional awk tweaking for cross-references.

Here is the list, ordered by maintainer:


Gordon Russell <g.russell@dcs.napier.ac.uk>
   blt8.0 conflicts with blt8.0-unoff   
   blt8.0-dev conflicts with blt8.0-unoff   

Norbert Veber <nveber@debian.org>
   radiusd-cistron conflicts with radiusd-livingston   

Marcelo E. Magallon <mmagallo@debian.org>
   asclock conflicts with afterstep(<= 1.4.5.3-1)  

Darren Benham <gecko@debian.org>
   xabacus conflicts with xmabacus   
   xmabacus conflicts with xabacus   
   xmpuzzles conflicts with xpuzzles   
   xpuzzles conflicts with xmpuzzles   

Paolo Molaro <lupus@debian.org>
   libgnome-perl conflicts with libgtk-perl   
   libgtk-imlib-perl conflicts with libgtk-perl   
   libgtk-perl conflicts with libgtk-imlib-perl   

Martin Schulze <joey@debian.org>
   apsfilter conflicts with magicfilter   

Jay Kominek <jkominek@debian.org>
   jail conflicts with iplogger   

Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>
   console-tools-data conflicts with kbd-data   
   kbd-data conflicts with console-tools-data   

Michael Bramer <grisu@debian.org>
   gmc conflicts with mc   
   mc conflicts with gmc   

Rich Sahlender <rsahlen@debian.org>
   dhcp-beta conflicts with dhcp-relay-beta   
   dhcp-relay-beta conflicts with dhcp-beta   

David H. Munro <munro@icf.llnl.gov>
   yorick-gist conflicts with yorick   

Federico Di Gregorio <fog@debian.org>
   tkstep4.2-dev conflicts with tk4.2-dev   

David Frey <dfrey@debian.org>
   magicfilter conflicts with apsfilter   

Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>
   libgimp-dev conflicts with libglib-dev   
   libglib-dbg conflicts with libgtk-dev   
   libglib-dev conflicts with libgtk-dev   
   libgtk1.1-dev conflicts with libgtk-dev   
   libgtk1.1-doc conflicts with libgtk-doc   

Brian White <bcwhite@pobox.com>
   gnats conflicts with gnats-user   
   gnats-user conflicts with gnats   


This list is not complete, in particular, I have not managed to make
pkg-order to report *all* the conflicts (for example, hello and
hello-debhelper), so this is just a starting point.

Now: What do do? I would suggest to do the following:

If you are listed here and maintain two conflicting optional packages,
then you are probably authorised enough to submit a bug against
ftp.debian.org (or mail override-change@debian.org) saying exactly which
one has to be downgraded to "extra" and which one remains optional,
required, important or standard (most of the packages listed below are
optional). [ The other way to solve this is of course to repackage them
so that they are compatible, like pgp-i and pgp-us, but I'm afraid it's
too late for slink ].

If two conflicting packages are maintained by different persons, I suggest
to contact the other maintainer and try to agree on which one is the one
that should be extra.

Only if there is not an agreement it should probably be needed to discuss
it here.


Thanks.

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