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

[Jerome St-Louis]

Will renaming the package mean renaming the actual library as well for
Lintian to be happy?

The ecere-dev package also provides /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libec.so


On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 6:44 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs <xnox at debian.org> wrote:

> 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.
>
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