Bug#572108: modifying files from another package

2010-04-14 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
Hi! * Hideki Yamane [2010-04-14 14:56:15 CEST]: > On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 22:54:39 +0100 > Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > > Please try though to settle for ther former suggestion of coordinating > > updates through volatile, and use the dpkg-divert approach only as last > > ressort. Also, what are

Bug#572108: modifying files from another package

2010-04-14 Thread Hideki Yamane
Hi, On Mon, 1 Mar 2010 22:54:39 +0100 Gerfried Fuchs wrote: > Please try though to settle for ther former suggestion of coordinating > updates through volatile, and use the dpkg-divert approach only as last > ressort. Also, what are your suggestions to fix the issue in stable? Yes, dpkg-divert

Bug#572108: modifying files from another package

2010-03-01 Thread Gerfried Fuchs
Hi! * Holger Levsen [2010-03-01 18:18:24 CET]: > On Montag, 1. März 2010, Pedro Zorzenon Neto wrote: > > Em 01-03-2010 12:53, Holger Levsen escreveu: > > > I think you should conflict with and replace tzdata (as in package > > > relationships). > > ^^ that is my suggestion. Add a "Confli

Bug#572108: modifying files from another package

2010-03-01 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Pedro, On Montag, 1. März 2010, Pedro Zorzenon Neto wrote: > To conflict with tzdata, I should handle all country timezones, because > it tzdata is uninstalled, the system won't have references to other > timezones. Yes, that would be better. I thought it would handle all timezones... > Imagi

Bug#572108: modifying files from another package

2010-03-01 Thread Pedro Zorzenon Neto
Em 01-03-2010 14:18, Holger Levsen escreveu: >>> I think you should conflict with and replace tzdata (as in package >>> relationships). > > ^^ that is my suggestion. Add a "Conflicts: tz-data" header, a "Provides: > tz-data" header and a "Replaces: tz-data" header. You can probably leave one > o

Bug#572108: modifying files from another package

2010-03-01 Thread Holger Levsen
Hi Pedro, On Montag, 1. März 2010, Pedro Zorzenon Neto wrote: > I don't know how to handle this. Do you have any suggestion? This is > what occours: > > Brazil is "very unstable" regarging daylight-saving-time (DST) start > date and end date. Up to 2009 [1], the dates of changing clock were >

Bug#572108: modifying files from another package

2010-03-01 Thread Pedro Zorzenon Neto
Hello Holger, I don't know how to handle this. Do you have any suggestion? This is what occours: Brazil is "very unstable" regarging daylight-saving-time (DST) start date and end date. Up to 2009 [1], the dates of changing clock were reported by government sometimes around 10 days before when

Bug#572108: modifying files from another package

2010-03-01 Thread Holger Levsen
Package: tz-brasil Version: 0.10 Severity: serious User: debian...@lists.debian.org Usertags: piuparts piuparts.d.o Hi, during a test with piuparts I noticed your package modifies files from another package in /usr. This is so wrong, I'm not even bothered to look up the part of policy this vio