Re: Package name conflict question
On Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 10:36:31AM +0200, Christian Seiler wrote:
> On 10/16/2016 10:07 AM, Alec Leamas wrote:
> > On 16/10/16 09:35, SZ Lin (林上智) wrote:
> >> I want to package python library - *uritemplate* [1]; however, I found
> >> that there is a same name package with similar function in Debian
> >> archive [3].
>
> You'd still need to add Conflicts: python-uritemplate to the package,
> (because of the same Python package name) but that would make the new
> package not coinstallable with the following rdepends:
>
> apt-cache rdepends python-uritemplate
> python-uritemplate
> Reverse Depends:
> python-googleapi
> slapos-client
> python-oauth2client
If these packages are not API-compatible at least for their usual usage,
Conflicts: is the wrong thing to do. Please rename the new library instead.
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