Steve Langasek wrote: > 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.
Ah, fair enough. Yet another reason to dislike maintainer scripts. Hopefully we can move to purely declarative diversions at some point, at which point this kind of analysis might become feasible. - Josh Triplett
