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

[Simon Paillard]

Hi,

On Thu, Oct 09, 2014 at 10:27:23AM +0200, Joachim Wuttke wrote:
> As upstream maintainer of libcerf, I would like to express
> a clear preference for solving the conflict by withdrawing
> cerf.3 and cerfc.3 from manpages-dev.

Next manpages Debian upload will stop installing both cerf.3 cerfc.3.
 
> I already proposed this solution to upstream,
>   https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=80541
> where it has been received favorably, but not yet
> definitively accepted. It might be helpful if somebody
> expressed in the name of Debian that the matter is
> somewhat urgent.
> 
> I am opposed to the alternative solution of libcerf renaming
> the functions cerf and cerfc. Any other names would be less
> pertinent. There is no conflict with glibc.

But there is a naming conflict, as the functions names are reserved by C99.

> On the contrary, libcerf complements glibc in providing a missing
> implementation.  Should glibc one day provide an official implementation,
> then the two functions will be immediately withdrawn from libcerf.



-- 
Simon Paillard