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

[Arnaud Ferraris]

Hi,

Thank you Arnaud for bringing this up!

Le 08/02/2026 à 10:39, Holger Levsen a écrit :
> On Sat, Feb 07, 2026 at 09:04:31PM +0000, Mike Gabriel wrote:
>> /etc/firefox-esr/policies/ is normally for sysadmins (i.e. in system
>> management infrastructures where to place site-wide configs).
>>
>> We should indeed make sure, both packages conflict with one another.
>   
> or better: use different filenames?!

This wouldn't work, firefox expects the file to be named policies.json. 
The only possible way around (besides declaring conflicts) would be to 
use the alternatives system. However, I doubt this would be actually 
used by anyone:
- firefox-esr-mobile-config is only meant to be installed on phones
- debian-edu-config would likely not be installed on non-desktop/latptop 
devices

I'll be waiting a bit for other's input if any, but my plan for 
firefox-esr-mobile-config is to make it conflict with debian-edu-config, 
and Mike seems to be willing to go the same route for debian-edu-config.

Cheers,
Arnaud