Bug#89473: PROPOSAL] dpkg-statoverride and Conflicts: suidmanager (<< 0.50)

[Wichert Akkerman <wichert@valinux.com>]

Previously Julian Gilbey wrote:
> But you mustn't use dpkg-statoverride to introduce new overrides;
> that's the responsibility of the local sysadmin.

That is a vlid point, but has nothing to do with where you use dpkg-statoverride.
I don't think policy should mention where you can use it. Policy should set
guidelines for making packages, it should not specify every possible little
detail, which is what people seem to want to do now.

The less details, the better.

Wichert.

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