Re: Bug#319271: devscripts: Conflicts with libgd-tools: /usr/bin/annotate
- To: Julian Gilbey <jdg@polya.uklinux.net>
- Cc: Stephen Quinney <sjq@debian.org>, 319271@bugs.debian.org, Joshua Kwan <joshk@triplehelix.org>, Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>, debian-qa@lists.debian.org
- Subject: Re: Bug#319271: devscripts: Conflicts with libgd-tools: /usr/bin/annotate
- From: Filippo Giunchedi <filippo@esaurito.net>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 09:37:09 +0200
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On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 08:14:53AM +0100, Julian Gilbey wrote:
[snip, new devscripts file-conflicts with libgd-tools #319271]
> > I'm for annotate-output (and I'm also thinking that lintian should check if a
> > file conflicts with another one)
>
> It should be a katie / DAK check, not a lintian one, as you need to
> scan the entire archive.
This can be an option too, however you should build the entire tree of
dependencies (Conflicts/Depends) as it makes sense to have two packages provide
the same file while conflicting (or one is in the Conflicts tree of the other)
anyway I'm CC'ing -qa as this might be of interest.
filippo
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