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

[Jerome St-Louis]

For whatever reason, "Library for modular symbols and elliptic curves over
Q" was not in experimental, but it is in unstable.

And Ecere's libec0 is in experimental.

Will Ecere have to rename libec?

Regards,

-Jerome

On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar at debian.org> wrote:

> 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
>
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