Bug#578852: debian-policy: prohibit usage of Breaks for file conflicts

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

"Eugene V. Lyubimkin" <jackyf@debian.org> writes:

> Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> No. They can trivially see if two packages have conflicting files. Ther=
> e
>> is a Replaces entry in the package.
> Two package with conflicting files may not have Replaces if they are tota=
> lly
> different.

Then they will get bugreports about causing file overwrite errors in
dpkg.

  Policy 7.6.1: Firstly, as mentioned before, it is usually an error for
  a package to contain files which are on the system in another package.
  ...

MfG
        Goswin