On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 09:58:12AM -0500, Jeff Bailey wrote: > On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 05:19, GOTO Masanori wrote: > > > This is related to __libc_fork(). The submitter wants glibc to conflict > > > with older wine. Do we ever do package-specific conflicts for libc? > > > Seems like that would be difficult to maintain. Seems like this really > > > is a wine issue; can we close/reassign this? > I don't think we need to conflict with packages because of bugs in their > package. That's right as far as it goes, but you _do_ need to conflict with packages if that's the best way of ensuring smooth upgrades. Conflicts: aren't there to look pretty, they're to ensure users systems don't break because of incompatibilities. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``If you don't do it now, you'll be one year older when you do.''
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