Fabio Tranchitella <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Il giorno lun, 24/07/2006 alle 23.22 +0100, martin f krafft ha scritto: >> An upgrade is the same as removing the old and installing the new >> package, so other than maintainer script invocations (which will >> differ if the old package was removed because of a conflict), >> I don't see a difference. Of course, dpkg wouldn't let you a package >> if it created a conflict, so yeah... no point...
> If nobody disagree, I'll start filing bug reports for the packages > listed in the first email of the thread and I'll bug lintian to add a > check for this case. lintian already checks for package relationships with itself, but explicitly excludes Conflicts from that check. The description is: Tag: package-relation-with-self Type: warning Info: The package declares a relationship with itself. This is not very useful, except in the case of a package Conflicting with itself, if its package name doubles as a virtual package. So, are people sure this is not useful even if the package name doubles as a virtual package? It seems to me like it would be. Or are people just arguing that that case will never occur? -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
