Re: [PATCH] scripts/package/builddeb: upgrade to current practices

[Martin-Éric Racine <martin-eric.racine@iki.fi>]

2012/7/18 maximilian attems <max@stro.at>:
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 10:46:23PM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
>> 2012/7/17 Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>:
>> >>
>> >>  Package: $fwpackagename
>> >>  Architecture: all
>> >> +Conflicts: firmware-linux-free, firmware-linux-nonfree
>> >> +Provides: firmware-linux-free, firmware-linux-nonfree
>> >> +Replaces: firmware-linux-free, firmware-linux-nonfree
>> >
>> > I assume you mean Breaks+Replaces.  Do the files actually overlap,
>> > or is this change being overly cautious?  I would expect the files
>> > not to overlap because the package build with deb-pkg puts firmware
>> > in a versioned subdirectory "/lib/firmware/<version>".
>>
>> AFAIK they would overlap, hence the Conflicts.
>
> This is wrong and properly fixed in -next.

Max,

Exactly what is wrong with this fix? Could you tell us exactly what
you did differently and why?

Martin-Éric