Re: Bug#900511: libcurl4 Conflicts: libcurl3

[Marvin Renich <mrvn@renich.org>]

* Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> [180602 18:24]:
> Adrian is of course correct.
> 
> The libcurl situation is exceptional and warranted a project-wide
> discussion looking for cleaner migration paths (to no avail), so I think

Okay, I must have missed this discussion.  Can you point me to the
thread (on debian-devel?) related to this?

> it would cause more confusion than clarity to try to spell out the cases
> where this sort of action is warranted.  But maybe a footnote is in order
> to warn the Policy reader that sometimes this happens.  How about this?

LGTM, though I would have been satisfied with something even more brief,
such as

  If there are technical reasons why it is unfeasible or impractical to
  have two versions of a library co-installable, an exception may be
  granted by consensus on the debian-devel mailing list.

Thanks for the explanation.

...Marvin