Re: conflicts and multiarch

2014-04-11 Thread Vincent Danjean
Hi, On 11/04/2014 19:32, Ralf Treinen wrote: > Can package a2 be installed for both architectures at the same time? Policy > section 7.4 seems to indicate that yes, but then it was written without > multiarch in mind. What do you think should be the right answer? You can install a2:amd64 and

conflicts and multiarch

2014-04-11 Thread Ralf Treinen
Hello, when working on the next version of dose-distcheck we found a cornercase where we are not sure about multiarch semantics. To explain the problem at hand of an example: without mutiarch, we all know that a self-conflict is ignored: Package: a1 Architecture: amd64 Version: 1 Conflicts: virta