Re: Can I simulate a weak conflict?
> The important thing to realise is that Debian is in fact
> seriously flawed and needs to be fixed!
>
> I hope that (a) the need for a mutual exclusion guarantee
> is not in dispute and (b) that the existing unilateral
> declaration of such an exclusion by the 'Conflicts'
> declaration in a package is taken as the way to
> declare such an exclusion, and (c) everyone agrees
> that Debian does not correctly maintain the invariant
> and (d) my technique is one way to fix the problem.
>
> This leaves open the question of the best way to
> implement the requirement (my solution is only an existence proof)
> the important thing is that if you install A which conflicts with B,
> and then try to install B, the attempt will be refused: more
> precisely, exclusion declarations specify invariants which
> must be maintained.
>
> Question: what object do I file a BUG against in the BTS?
Debian Policy ? Dpkg ? Apt ?
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Regards,
EddyP
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