Florian Weimer writes ("Bug#400112: [PROPOSAL] forbid source/binary package
name conflicts"):
> There's also the related issue that some binary packages have different
> source packages on different architectures (and different versioning
> schemes). There's no actual conflict, but it's making bug tracking
> harder than necessary.
I'm not proposing outlawing that but I do think that to avoid
confusion in this case, the corresponding source packages ought to
have different names.
> I really wish we could solve this somehow, but as has been pointed out,
> it's probably more realistic to fix the tools.
It's not just tools that would need fixing - people's brains, too.
Ian.
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