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Re: Question about python policy



On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 08:18:34PM +0200, Fabian Fagerholm wrote:
> Secondly, the above scheme makes it impossible to install both
> packages at the same time. This is because both packages provide the
> same initscript, defaults file and logrotate file. [...] Another
> solution would be to split all the common parts into a separate
> package, which is then depended upon by both versioned packages.

This is the solution I use with the PyX package is to create a
python-pyx-common package that both of the versioned packages depend on.
This works fine for PyX, since the -common package just cotains
read-only data files. I am not sure how well it would work for
Albatross.

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