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Re: fiona packaging



On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Sebastiaan Couwenberg
<sebastic@xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On 10/17/2014 01:57 PM, Johan Van de Wauw wrote:
>
> The relevant Policy section is 7.4:
>
> https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-conflicts
>
> The key sentence:
>
> "
> Be aware that adding Conflicts is normally not the best solution when
> two packages provide the same files. Depending on the reason for that
> conflict, using alternatives or renaming the files is often a better
> approach. See, for example, Binaries, Section 10.1.
> "

>
> With the above in mind, I think it's best to rename the 'fio' binary
> from fiona to either 'fiona' or 'fiona-fio'.
>

Ok, that was also the solution which I thought was most appropriate. I
will rename to fiona.

Johan


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