Bug#697697: ecere-sdk: binary package conflict with eclib

[Ansgar Burchardt]

Control: severity -1 serious

Dmitrijs Ledkovs <xnox at debian.org> writes:
> ecere-sdk and eclib packages both have binary package libec0.

Two packages building the same binary is certainly a RC bug.

> Both are "Library for modular symbols and elliptic curves over Q", but I
> am not sure if the two packages are the same or different sources, and
> how to name them.

No, eclib's libec0 says that, but the one from ecere-sdk says "eC
Compiler Library", see [1].

  [1] <http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libec0>

> The options are:
> 1) ecere-sdk drops the package & build-deps on the eclib one
> 2) eclib is dropped in favor of ecere-sdk
> 3) ecere-sdk renames its libec0 to something else
> 4) eclib renames its libec0 to something else
> 5) both rename libec0 to something else, and possibly both Provides:
> libec0 (if compatible)

Just from the package description they seem to be completly unrelated
libraries.

> Also, we should decide above in context when/where we want to implement
> this: wheezy and jessie. BTW Ubuntu already synced both packages, so the
> clash is more evident there.

Both packages are not in testing, so there is nothing to deal with for
wheezy.

Ansgar