Package: syslinux
Version: 2:4.01+dfsg-2
Severity: normal
The relationships between syslinux and syslinux-common are rather
strange:
,----
| Package: syslinux
| Architecture: amd64 i386
| Depends:
| ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends}, syslinux-common (= ${binary:Version}),
| Conflicts: syslinux-common (<< ${source:Version})
| Replaces: syslinux-common
|
| Package: syslinux-common
| Architecture: all
| Depends: ${misc:Depends}
| Conflicts: syslinux (<< ${source:Version})
| Replaces: syslinux
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Having syslinux and syslinux-common conflict with previous versions of
each other means that apt has to temporarily remove one of them on
upgrades. For people also having extlinux installed, two packages will
be temporarily removed, because extlinux also conflicts with previous
versions of syslinux and syslinux-common! I would suggest to remove the
Conflicts against syslinux-commmon in syslinux, as it has a versioned
dependency on syslinux-common at least since lenny.
The Replaces should really be versioned, since unversioned Replaces
could hide inadvertent packaging bugs (shipping a file in both syslinux
and syslinux-common can easily go unnoticed).
-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.34.1-nouveau (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages syslinux depends on:
ii libc6 2.11.2-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii syslinux-common 2:4.01+dfsg-2 collection of boot loaders (common
syslinux recommends no packages.
Versions of packages syslinux suggests:
ii dosfstools 3.0.9-1 utilities for making and checking
ii mtools 4.0.12-1 Tools for manipulating MSDOS files
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