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Re: Bug#319271: devscripts: Conflicts with libgd-tools: /usr/bin/annotate



On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 09:37:09AM +0200, Filippo Giunchedi wrote:
> 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

Correct: this is precisely what should be done.

There are further complications, though, as a package might use
dpkg-divert in the preinst ....

   Julian



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