Re: Automatically detecting package file conflicts without dependency conflicts?
On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 9:28 AM, Josh Triplett wrote:
> The archive software already does a variety of checks on packages before
> accepting them into the archive. Do we have enough data and metadata
> available that the archive software could automatically reject uploads
> of .deb files that contain the same file path as another package without
> a Conflicts or Replaces expressed against that package?
We have manual testing of this and it might be automatable and it
sounds like piuparts might be doing that already:
https://qa.debian.org/dose/file-overwrites.html
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