Package: nodejs
Version: 0.2.6-1
Severity: serious
Tags: experimental
It appears that nodejs in experimental has acquired a Conflicts with
node. According to the changes file for that release:
* Use upstream binary names for node and node-waf,
conflicts with node package. (Closes: #597571)
I still don't believe that is allowed by Debian Policy. Section 10.1
states:
Two different packages must not install programs with different
functionality but with the same filenames. (The case of two programs
having the same functionality but different implementations is handled
via "alternatives" or the "Conflicts" mechanism. See Section 3.9,
`Maintainer Scripts' and Section 7.4, `Conflicting binary packages -
`Conflicts'' respectively.) If this case happens, one of the programs
must be renamed. The maintainers should report this to the
`debian-devel' mailing list and try to find a consensus about which
program will have to be renamed. If a consensus cannot be reached,
_both_ programs must be renamed.
#597571 had been marked wontfix, but then was mysteriously closed in
experimental. If this isn't in contravention of Debian Policy (which is
possible, I suppose), then what's been done to resolve it so it isn't
should be put in README.Debian or NEWS.Debian.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.37-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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