Bug#577638: mpich2: conflict over the mpd binary

[Julien Cristau]

On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 15:09:56 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:

> On 13/04/10 at 14:49 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 13:43:26 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > 
> > > So, there's no perfect solution, and I think that the current one
> > > (assume that there's no common user of  music player daemon and mpich2)
> > > is the best compromise.
> > 
> > I disagree that sweeping a serious policy violation under the carpet
> > (and preventing co-installation of mpd and mpich in the process) can be
> > qualified with 'best' anything.
> 
> So what do you propose?

Talk to the other package maintainer (and possibly upstreams).  Rename
one or both binaries.

(Yes, I know it's a pain.  That doesn't make a Conflicts right.)

Cheers,
Julien
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