Re: intent to package: sendpage

[Preston Smith <psmith@lib.purdue.edu>]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 07:23:04PM +1100, Brendan O'Dea (bod@compusol.com.au) wrote:
> 
> Be aware that a sendpage binary currently exists in the hylafax-client
> package.
> 

 I am aware of that, and am looking at what to do about it. As far as I
 can tell there are two things that can be done:

 Change the name of the binaries to something like sendpage-client and 
 sendpaged to remove the name overlap, 

 or use a Conflicts: dependency, not allow this package to be installed if
 hylafax-client already is. 

 Certainly, a Conflicts: would be far easier, but is this an approriate
 reason to declare a conflict? The packaging manual doesn't seem too clear
 on if there's reasons that are ok or not to declare a conflict. 

 Any advice from the veterans?

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