On 11/16/2011 05:23 PM, Nick Leverton wrote: > On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 06:48:02PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: >> >> There is no one way to deal with this, we should only deal with this >> on a case-by-case basis and use a number of strategies. ... > .... >> encourage our upstreams to rename and or work it out between them. If >> they are willing, great, if not, add Conflicts to the Debian packages >> and be done with it. Forcing the creation of a pair of >> incompatibilities between Debian and upstreams doesn't help anyone.
It does help the users who use both packages which is the reason why conflicts should *NOT* be used unless both packages provide the same functionality. Cheers Luk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4ec4057c.80...@debian.org
