Re: Package conflicting with itself?
On 2014-10-22 08:20 +0200, Paul Wise wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 12:54 AM, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote:
>
>> Does it makes sense for a package to conflict with itself?
>
> Not really, especially since there is no multi-arch header. You might
> want to file a bug report about this. It would probably be a good idea
> to add a lintian tag about it too.
The package could be provided by another one as a virtual package, for
this reason a self-Conflicts is legitimate. See the existing lintian
tag package-relation-with-self.
Whether that's useful in the case of python3-postgresql is another
question, since there seem to be no other providers of it.
Cheers,
Sven
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