On Thu, Nov 26, 2015 at 9:28 AM, Josh Triplett wrote: > 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?
We have manual testing of this and it might be automatable and it sounds like piuparts might be doing that already: https://qa.debian.org/dose/file-overwrites.html -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
