Reinhard Tartler wrote: > Fabian Greffrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Reinhard Tartler schrieb: >>>> should we add Conflicts against libav* (>> 3:20080706) to all our >>>> library packages or is this a crazy idea? >>> no, this won't work. we cannot conflict against our own packages. >> Sure, but how about our libavutil pakage Conflicting against all of >> Marillat's packages except libavutil itself? All our packages depend on >> libavutil, so this would solve half the problem. > > then our libavutil would conflict against our other packages. I don't > think this will work. > >> We could do the same for our libavcodec package (conflicting against >> all of Marillat's packages except libavcodec itself). This should fix >> many of the problems, or do I miss anything? > > I think this will result in uninstallable packages, unless I didn't > misunderstood your proposal.
Please don't add extra logic in Debian packages to conflict against packages outside Debian. This is not scalable for a start, anyone can start asking for more conflicts. The other way around is scalable and logical: add conflicts in packages outside Debian against packages inside Debian if necessary. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
