Package: debian-policy Severity: important thanks Hey Policy, I'd like to clarify the purpose of the Conflicts relation, as written in section 7.2 and 7.4. Recently a package (systemd-must-die) was uploaded to NEW. This package creates a Conflicts relation with systemd packages, and tries to prevent their install[1]. I see this as an abuse of the Conflicts relation, and *not* a valid reason to use it. In my opinion, this is a needless relation, and not why Conflicts exists. I'd really like a clarification on the point to see if my reading is correct, and secondly, I'd really like to see policy adjusted to explicitly forbid or allow this use in the examples (cosmetics, really). Thanks for your work, Paul [1]: really it'll just cause apt to remove the systemd-blocking-package. -- .''`. Paul Tagliamonte <paultag@debian.org> | Proud Debian Developer : :' : 4096R / 8F04 9AD8 2C92 066C 7352 D28A 7B58 5B30 807C 2A87 `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~paultag `- http://people.debian.org/~paultag/conduct-statement.txt
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