Re: Same files in two packages - under which conditions is this allowed?
* Frank Lichtenheld (djpig@debian.org) [040703 16:40]:
> On Sat, Jul 03, 2004 at 04:07:33PM +0200, Andreas Barth wrote:
> > * Goswin von Brederlow (brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de) [040703 15:40]:
> > > A versioned conflicts is ok when the conflict only exists in earlier or
> > > later versions of a package. E.g. a file moves from foo to
> > > foo-common. foo-common then conflicts with foo (<<
> > > first-moved-version).
> > But exactly this is not enough. Because at unpackaging foo-common
> > there could be a conflict with the old version of foo that's still
> > packaged out. Please remember: Conflicts don't need to be satisfied
> > during unpackaging stage.
> Where do you read that? I can't find that in policy, only a similar
> statement for "Depends".
You're right. After some discussions, also on IRC, it seems that I was
wrong. Ok, in this case building some "where does the upgrade
break"-checker seems to be quite simple.
Cheers,
Andi
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