At bottom :- On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 16:40, Josselin Mouette <j...@debian.org> wrote: > Package: dconf, dconf-tools > Severity: serious > Justification: Policy 10.1 > > Le vendredi 20 mai 2011 à 06:55 +0000, shirish शिरीष a écrit : >> Hi all, >> There are two different tools, dconf (for getting hardware info >> and comparing it with other systems) and the dconf-tools (which are >> for saving and manipulating desktop .configuration files) as shown >> below :- > >> There seems to be though a conflict (which I don't understand why ) >> between the two packages as both are different. Can somebody explain ? >> I do see the conflict line in dconf-tools >> >> 'Conflicts: dconf' > > Damn it, you’re right. This goes directly against Policy. > > Leo, what do you think could be done about this? Since dconf is not a > very widespread tool, I’d appreciate if you could rename the binary - > and maybe also the package name, since it’s confusing for users who look > for GNOME-related packages and stomp on a sysadmin tool. > > Cheers, > -- > .''`. Josselin Mouette > : :' : > `. `' > `-
Hi all, Any update on this, I just updated/upgraded an update to dconf-tools but nothing seems to be happening with dconf :( d-conf (0.7.5-3) unstable; urgency=low * Re-enable dconf-editor. -- Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org> Sat, 18 Jun 2011 23:11:01 +0200 Trying to install dconf still produces a conflict :- $ sudo aptitude install dconf [sudo] password for shirish: The following NEW packages will be installed: dconf 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded. Need to get 15.2 kB of archives. After unpacking 115 kB will be used. The following packages have unmet dependencies: dconf-tools: Conflicts: dconf but 0.5.1-2 is to be installed. The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Remove the following packages: 1) dconf-tools Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] q Abandoning all efforts to resolve these dependencies. Abort. -- Regards, Shirish Agarwal शिरीष अग्रवाल My quotes in this email licensed under CC 3.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ http://flossexperiences.wordpress.com 065C 6D79 A68C E7EA 52B3 8D70 950D 53FB 729A 8B17 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
