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Re: Conflicts with a package with same priority : optional



On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:39:29 +0200, Franck Joncourt wrote:

> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-priorities
> 
> Should I consider, in a future release, updating the priority field of
> libiptables-parse-perl and libiptables-chainmgr-perl from optional to
> extra ? in order to avoid conflicts with psad whose priority is set to
> optional as well.

As the two perl packages have a versioned conflict (because they are
now dependencies of psad instead of being inlcuded) I don't think
this policy section applies here; in fact psad and libiptables-*-perl
must even be installed together.

Just my two EUR-cents.

Cheers,
gregor
 
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