[Debian-on-mobile-maintainers] Bug#1126881: firefox-esr-mobile-config: Should conflict with debian-edu-config?

Chris Hofstaedtler zeha at debian.org
Tue Feb 3 09:47:46 GMT 2026


Control: reassign -1 firefox-esr-mobile-config,debian-edu-config
Control: severity -1 serious

On Tue, Feb 03, 2026 at 03:20:46PM +0700, Arnaud Rebillout wrote:
> ```
> $ apt-file search share/firefox-esr/distribution/policies.json
> debian-edu-config: /usr/share/firefox-esr/distribution/policies.json
> firefox-esr-mobile-config: /usr/share/firefox-esr/distribution/policies.json
> ```
> 
> I suppose the package should add a `Conflicts: debian-edu-config`?

Maybe both should conflict with each other, but the packages 
certainly need to coordinate.

Simple reproducer:

% mmdebstrap --arch=amd64 --chrooted-customize-hook="apt install -y --update debian-edu-config firefox-esr-mobile-config" forky /dev/null
...
Selecting previously unselected package firefox-esr-mobile-config.
Preparing to unpack .../211-firefox-esr-mobile-config_5.1.0-1_all.deb ...
Unpacking firefox-esr-mobile-config (5.1.0-1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-nnvT6h/211-firefox-esr-mobile-config_5.1.0-1_all.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/share/firefox-esr/distribution/policies.json', which is also in package debian-edu-config (2.12.904)
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-nnvT6h/211-firefox-esr-mobile-config_5.1.0-1_all.deb
Error: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Chris



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