Re: file conflicts between packages
On 02-Oct-2001 Craig Dickson wrote:
> Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
>
>> This is mixviews violating X policy. Check if there is a bug open and if not
>> file one.
>
> Are you sure? It seems strange. app-defaults is a directory, not a file.
> I would have thought that any X application's package could put a file
> in there. Is it really the sole property of the xlibs package?
>
Positive. The X maintainer did this to ensure any package not following policy
is guaranteed to break as well as wanting to change app-defaults. There is
well defined X policy in debian-policy.
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