On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 12:38:41AM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote:
On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 06:45:26PM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
But you remove the package from testing doesn't mean we won't
have
users with it installed since it was present there so, IMHO, the
Conflict is need.
The bug is in the other package, packages are not required to work
around other bugs in other packages, that'd be a gigantic mess of
workarounds.
There'll be lots of workarounds, but that doesn't necessarily equate to
'a mess'.
If dash breaks using my package for whatever reason, I'm not going to
add a conflict: dash (with non-fixed version or whatever), dash needs
to fix it.
True. However, it does no harm to add the conflicts, while it does make
it easier for your users. When presented with a bug in another package
that completely breaks mine (rather than the entire system), usually I
do add the conflicts: header.