Re: How to fetchmail from ISP-b using SSH when ISP-a has socks?

[Robert Cymbala <cymbaLa@lafn.org>]

joost@topaz.mdcc.cx (Joost Kooij) wrote:
> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 14:51:47 +0200
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> On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 07:00:36PM -0700, Robert Cymbala wrote:
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> Or install ssh-socks, but it is a non-free package, rms doesn't like it.


I've got an unrelated, yet perhaps still important, question about
packages.  If package A conflicts with package B, should package B say
that it conflicts with package A?

For example (a biased example, involving ssh):

$ awk '/^$/{if (p ~ /^ssh/) {print p, c;} p=c="";} \
> /^Package:/{p=$2} /^Conflicts:/{c=$0}' /var/lib/dpkg/status

ssh-nonfree Conflicts: ssh, ssh-askpass (<= 1.2.27-4)
ssh Conflicts: ssh-nonfree, ssh-socks, ssh2, debconf (<< 0.2.17), debconf-tiny (<< 0.2.17)
ssh-socks 


Package ssh-socks doesn't conflict with anything, but ssh conflicts
with ssh-socks and ssh-nonfree.  Do rules for making packages say that
conflicts have to be indicated by control-information of both
packages?

Cheers,
Robert