Re: Bug#758234: Raising priority of Debian packages
Hello,
On Sun, Sep 07, 2014 at 12:51:53PM +0200, Jakub Wilk wrote:
> * Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org>, 2014-09-07, 17:38:
> >>We should probably also monitor package conflicts. We made a big fuss
> >>about node vs nodejs (and rightly so); but I bet that we have lots of
> >>other package pairs in the archive that can't be co-installed for no
> >>good reason.
> >
> >We have this already:
> >
> >https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=edos-file-overwrite;users=treinen@debian.org
> >https://qa.debian.org/dose/file-overwrites.html
>
> Nah, I meant packages that do declare that they can't be co-installed.
Jakub is right, the bugs that I am tracking on [1] concern only cases where
there is no conflict declared in the metadata, yet the two packages fail
to install together.
Having said that, it might be possible to use dose-debcheck to do the check
you have in mind. Maybe you can spare me reading the 139 messages in the bug
report and tell me what precisely you need: Is it that every single package
can be installed using only packages of the same or higher priority ?
-Ralf.
[1] https://qa.debian.org/dose/file-overwrites.html
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