#> severity 303962 serious #> clone 303962 -1 #...merged, use one of the bugs unmerge 306590 303962 reassign 306590 tty retitle 306590 tth: conflict with lilypond - /usr/bin/ps2png in both packages stop
(Fullquote of myself so that it is in both bugs) > Dear lilypond and tth maintainers, > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> tth (tex/lated to html converter) is recommended by lyx. >> I don't know if one package should rename its version of ps2png >> or lilypond use the one of tth (maybe even making another >> packager for this tool). >> >> I wonder if a lot of lilypon user use both . So only setted it to >> normal ... > > This is a serious bug according to > http://release.debian.org/etch_rc_policy.txt: > > ,---- > | If two packages cannot be installed together, one must list the > | other in its "Conflicts:" field. > | > | [...] > | > | Packages must not install programs in the default PATH with > | different functionality with the same file name, even if they > | Conflict:. > `---- > >> Tell me if you want to conflict with tth so i could tell tth >> maintainer to conflict with lilypond. > > Assuming that both executables do the same, mutual Conflicts: would be > sufficient to resolve these bugs. Of course it would be better instead > if either one would depend on the other, or ps2png be moved to a third > package (a new one, or an already existing one). > > Regards, Frank -- Dr. Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX/TeXLive)
