Re: Two groups of users, one distro in the middle
On 11/16/2011 05:23 PM, Nick Leverton wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 06:48:02PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
>>
>> There is no one way to deal with this, we should only deal with this
>> on a case-by-case basis and use a number of strategies. ...
> ....
>> encourage our upstreams to rename and or work it out between them. If
>> they are willing, great, if not, add Conflicts to the Debian packages
>> and be done with it. Forcing the creation of a pair of
>> incompatibilities between Debian and upstreams doesn't help anyone.
It does help the users who use both packages which is the reason why
conflicts should *NOT* be used unless both packages provide the same
functionality.
Cheers
Luk
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