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Re: Fwd: Bug#115234: bison++: conflict with bison and tasksel



Magnus Ekdahl <maguno@ludd.luth.se> writes:

> when I use tasksel and choose the C/C++ development task, tasksel wants to
> replace bison++ with bison.
> 
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>   bison++
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>   bison
[...]
> The problem here isn't that the manpages conflict. They only document bison 
> functionality and can easily be removed from bison++, given that bison++ 
> depend on bison. 

If bison++ does everything that bison does and more, I think they
rightfully conflict. It does not make sense to have both installed.

Actually tasksel should notice the Provides and leave bison++
installed.

-- 
Robbe

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