When does a conflict become outdated?

[Morten Brix Pedersen <morten@mbrix.dk>]

Hi,

Many old packages in Debian, have conflicts for specific version of
packages that are pre-potato. Would it then be OK to submit a minor bug
and tell the maintainer that the conflict could be removed?

For example, the debconf package has Conflicts: menu (<= 2.1.3-1). But
even potato has menu 2.1.5-10.1, so the conflict is not of much use
anymore.

  - Morten.