Bug#856050: unblock: pkgconf/0.9.12-3

[Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net>]

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Andrew Shadura:
> Package: release.debian.org
> Severity: normal
> User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
> Usertags: unblock
> 
> Please unblock package pkgconf.
> 
> Since pkg-config (= 0.29-1), pkg-config package provides
> /usr/bin/$DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE-pkg-config symlinks as explained in #842529.
> Build tools already expect those symlinks in place, which causes random build
> failures when pkgconf is pulled instead of pkg-config.
> 
> This upload fixes the issue by syncing cross-wrapper from pkg-config,
> adopting dpkg hook from pkg-config and preventing pkg-config from being
> co-installed with pkgconf:
> 
> [...]
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> unblock pkgconf/0.9.12-3
> 
> 

Hi,

Thanks for providing this fix.

I got one question about the "Breaks".  Why Breaks and why a versioned
breaks rather than an unconditional Conflicts?  AFAICT, pkgconf attempts
to be an "mutually exclusive alternative" to pkg-config (a la exim vs.
postfix).

Thanks,
~Niels