Bug#764310: manpages-dev and libcerf-doc: error when trying to install together

[Simon Paillard]

Hi,

On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 08:38:03AM +0200, Ralf Treinen wrote:
> Package: libcerf-doc,manpages-dev
> Version: libcerf-doc/1.3-1
> Version: manpages-dev/3.71-1
> Severity: serious
> User: treinen at debian.org
> Usertags: edos-file-overwrite

Thanks for the report !
 
[..]
> Here is a list of files that are known to be shared by both packages
> (according to the Contents file for sid/amd64, which may be
> slightly out of sync):
> 
>   /usr/share/man/man3/cerf.3.gz
>   /usr/share/man/man3/cerfc.3.gz

I'm not sure how we should handle this.

Several facts:
* both cerf.3 and cerfc.3 are already provided in manpages debian package since
  10 years before libcerf upload in June 2014
* the function names are reserved for future use in C99.

Options:
* rename cerf functions and manpages of libcerf (avoid use of reserved names)
or
* manpages-dev to stop installing cerf.3 and cerfc.3 manpages

* anyway, Michael, if you read me, I suggest you mention libcerf in the cerf*
  manpages.

-- 
Simon Paillard