Re: M-A: Same package A providing and conflicting with package B

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Johannes Schauer wrote:

> As I learned, the above means, that there must be only one package
> providing linux-kernel-headers.
>
> The problem is, that with linux-libc-dev conflicting with
> linux-kernel-headers of all arches, linux-libc-dev is not co-installable
> with itself anymore even though it is M-A: Same.

That does sound like a bug.  The intuitive behavior when foo both
Provides and Conflicts with bar would be for the Conflicts to only
apply to other packages.

Thanks,
Jonathan