Am Donnerstag, den 13.10.2005, 09:32 +0200 schrieb Goswin Brederlow:
> the libmagic1 package contains magic files in /usr/share/misc/file
> that will cause a future libmagic2 to conflict with libmagic1
> preventing a clean transition.

How do you know what the files will be called in libmagic2?

> This also prevents clean multiarch
> packages from working.

I don’t understand.

> Please split the architecture independent data files out of the
> library package to facilitate future compatibility.

How will that help? How will a split prevent the file name clash?

Bye,
    Mike

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