Bug#671507: debian-policy: policy section 7.4 conflicts with section 10.1
Patrick Ouellette <pouelle@debian.org> writes:
> Policy 7.4 states
> "Neither Breaks nor Conflicts should be used unless two packages cannot
> be installed at the same time or installing them both causes one of them
> to be broken or unusable. Having similar functionality or performing the
> same tasks as another package is not sufficient reason to declare Breaks
> or Conflicts with that package. "
> 7.4 suggests it is appropriate to conflict if a package installs an
> executable with the same name as another package but different
> functionality.
I'm not seeing where it suggests that personally, but I'm probably too
close to it. We can certainly add a pointer to 10.1 here.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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