Bug#757906: Dependency solution problems currently with gnuplog

[David Kalnischkies]

On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 10:20:08PM +0200, Anton Gladky wrote:
> On some stage of gnuplot maintaining it was decided not to conflict
> -nox with others. But there is no need to keep -nox and -x11 together,
> because -x11 provides all functionality of -nox. There should not be
> any problems by Wheezy->Jessie migration what is the most important
> for us.

Well, I don't want to be an inch pincher, but using Conflicts for this
is forbidden by policy (second-last paragraph of §7.4 Conflicting binary
packages) so technically an rc-bug, but if you really insist at least use
Breaks as it is less demanding for the package manager.

I don't see the problem this is trying to solve though. Sure, a user can
install -nox and -x11 together and the -x11 binary can do the same as
the -nox binary, so this will waste some diskspace if he does… so?

Further more, I don't understand why -qt conflicts with -x11 as it is
completely fine to have a multi-user system were some will like an -x11
frontend better than -qt or the other way around, but I know nothing
about the packages in question, so I will shut up now and let people who
know stuff do stuff. :)


Best regards

David Kalnischkies
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