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

[Dmitrijs Ledkovs]

On 8 January 2013 19:11, 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>
>

Ah, thanks for this link. I must have mixed up the pages I was looking at.

>> 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.
>

In that case ecere-sdk should probably use a different name for that package.
libecec?! since the .so file is already in /usr/lib/.*/ec/libec.so

>> 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.
>

Cool.

Regards,

Dmitrijs.