Bug#875553: ITP: cdiff -- Colored, incremental diff with side by side and auto pager support

[Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org>]

Hi Juhani,

On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 03:31:30PM +0300, Juhani Numminen wrote:
> Michael Banck kirjoitti 12.09.2017 klo 10:35:
> >This is Build-Depends for patroni, which I am also packaging. It will
> >have to conflict with colordiff as both ship /usr/bin/cdiff.
> 
> Please note that upstream is in the process of changing the command name[1],
> as the conflict was pointed out to them by a Fedora packager.

Thanks for alerting me to the issue, although it seems upstream is not
engaging in the discussion a lot.

> Furthermore, based on a quick search[2], patroni doesn't seem to require
> /usr/bin/cdiff anyway but rather the python module cdiff.
> 
> So, there should be no need to conflict with colordiff.

You are right; I will just ship it as a python module without the
/usr/bin/cdiff wrapper for now and wait what upstream decides.


Thanks,

Michael