Gerfried Fuchs <rhonda@deb.at> (03/05/2011): > Hi, guess we are coming to an end :) Great. > Actually I wouldn't want to guess too much what users would or wouldn't > install here - I've seen too many awkward situations. Situation is that > the newly created xserver-xorg-dev-helper package for squeeze-backports > will contain files that are shipped in xserver-xorg-dev in wheezy/sid > and thus create a file conflict. If someone, for whatever reason > whatsoever, has installed the xserver-xorg-dev-helper package from > backports and upgrades, including xserver-xorg-dev, their upgrade will > break because of the filename conflicts. > > To avoid that, please include the safety net guided by debian-policy, > even if the situation might sound crafted to you. It might well be so, > but better safe than sorry and it doesn't hurt, does it? In a previous mail of mine, one can see: | * Sync from xorg-server 2:1.9.5-1, and make the binary conflict with | xserver-xorg-server (>= 2:1.9.4-1), which is where those helpers were | first introduced. … | Conflicts: | xserver-xorg-dev (>= 2:1.9.4-1), which already prevents from running into a file conflict (or did I miss a case which would break?). Not sure it's worth the trouble of carrying those extra relationships for a whole release cycle just because somebody somewhere in the world might have installed a package she doesn't know at all what to do with, and because that person might need to get a smoother upgrade path. But I'll do that if you feel it's a must to get those backports in… Mraw, KiBi.
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