Re: [PATCH 3/6] Conffile database handling functions

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Guillem Jover wrote:

> Multiarch packages should not have conflicting conffiles, no.
> Something that we might allow is for the different packages to ship
> the exact same conffile, and not consider that a conflict.
> 
> The only thing that we'll need for multiarch is to place the arch
> along the package name, so something like <pkg:arch> instead of just
> <pkg> but I don't think we need much more.

Thanks for the explanation.  (I had been wondering what the general
strategy is for situations like this.)