On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 10:08:47AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > On 2006-04-16 Justin Pryzby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Package: hula-mta,exim4-base > > Severity: serious > > > The etch release policy states that: > > > | http://release.debian.org/etch_rc_policy.txt > > | If two packages cannot be installed together, one must list > > | the other in its "Conflicts:" field. > > > Both hula-mta and exim4-base include the pathname > > usr/share/man/man8/sendmail.8.gz, but neither of them declare an > > appropriate "Conflicts:", which is not allowed. > [...] > > hula-mta Provides/Conflicts/Replaces mail-transport-agent, which makes > this an exim4 bug.
Agreed. > It was introduced in 4.60-2 with > > * move man pages from daemon packages to exim4-base, add lintian > and linda overrides to allow daemon packages not to contain man pages. Disagreed. If hula-mta provides mail-transport-agent, then exim4-base should explicitly conflict with hula-mta. We have the infrastructure to automatically conflict with packages that provide m-t-a, and the arguments given in the thread following http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/private/pkg-exim4-devel/2003-November/001023.html (sorry, pkg-exim4-devel archives are non-public, you need to subscribe to be able to see the archives) are still valid in my opinion. Why is conflicting with hula-mta a non-sufficient fix? I find it a bad idea to have the man pages in two daemon packages. Greetings Marc -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Marc Haber | "I don't trust Computers. They | Mailadresse im Header Mannheim, Germany | lose things." Winona Ryder | Fon: *49 621 72739834 Nordisch by Nature | How to make an American Quilt | Fax: *49 621 72739835 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
