Re: kernel-manual-X.Y.Z packages

[Horms <horms@debian.org>]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 12:48:29AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>         There is a problem with -doc packages as produced by
>  kernel-package, in that two different versions can not be installed
>  at the same time, since they contain secti0on 9 man pages, which thsu
>  generate file conflicts.
> 
>         Since it may be desirable to have the doc packages installed
>  at the same time, I am considering splitting off the man pages into
>  kernel-manual-X.Y.Z (or linux-manual-X.Y.Z), which shall conflict
>  with and provide kernel-manual (or linux-manual) virtual package. So,
>  one may have multiple versions of kernel-doc installed
>  simultaneously, but only one of kernel-manuals packages installed.

That sounds fair enough, though could this also be solved with
alternates?

-- 
Horms