On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 05:28:35PM -0800, Josh Triplett wrote: > Bugs like 806253 come up fairly regularly in unstable: two packages > contain the same file, but don't have a Conflicts or Replaces > relationship. Renamed packages seem like the most common case, though > this can happen other ways as well.
> The archive software already does a variety of checks on packages before > accepting them into the archive. Do we have enough data and metadata > available that the archive software could automatically reject uploads > of .deb files that contain the same file path as another package without > a Conflicts or Replaces expressed against that package? No, because packages can divert files belonging to other packages, in which case no conflict is required; and diversions happen via maintainer scripts, so correctly detecting them is non-trivial. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. Ubuntu Developer http://www.debian.org/ slanga...@ubuntu.com vor...@debian.org
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