On 05:11 Mon 20 Jul , Russ Allbery wrote: RA> tags 537672 wontfix RA> merge 293838 537672 RA> thanks RA> "Dmitry E. Oboukhov" <unera@debian.org> writes: >> Today I have been asked about new package 'qconf' which contains the >> file /usr/bin/qconf. This package has conflict with gridengine-client: >> >> $ apt-file search qconf|grep /usr/bin/qconf >> gridengine-client: /usr/bin/qconf >> >> It would be nice if lintian can find similar issues. RA> Lintian doesn't do cross-package checks by design, since one of the goals RA> of Lintian is that if the same version of Lintian is run on the same RA> package, it will produce the exact same results as last time. It also is RA> designed not to depend on any external resources that may or may not be RA> available, such as apt-file lists for unstable (note that lintian.d.o runs RA> on a stable system). I think, these tests could be added as additional option for lintian. Also lintian can have no depends to apt-file: it can have apt-hook script which would download Content.gz into private lintian directory. -- ... mpd playing: WASP - Somebody To Love . ''`. Dmitry E. Oboukhov : :’ : email: unera@debian.org jabber://UNera@uvw.ru `. `~’ GPGKey: 1024D / F8E26537 2006-11-21 `- 1B23 D4F8 8EC0 D902 0555 E438 AB8C 00CF F8E2 6537
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