[Debichem-devel] [Debichem-commits] [debichem] r4720 - unstable/elkcode/debian

Michael Banck mbanck at debian.org
Sun Sep 22 13:55:33 UTC 2013


On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 01:21:20PM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote:
> Am Sonntag, den 22.09.2013, 12:45 +0200 schrieb Michael Banck:
> > On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 12:17:07PM +0200, Daniel Leidert wrote:
> > > Am Samstag, den 21.09.2013, 22:53 +0200 schrieb Michael Banck:
> 
> [..]
> > > ATM IMO we can still do all these things easily, because popcon
> > > currently doesn't list any installation.
> >  
> > Heh, sure :)
> > 
> > > > Is there some other disadvantages I am missing for a Conflicts?
> > > 
> > > Well, that is usually a violation of its dedicated use. 
> > 
> > AIUI, Conflicts is exactly for packages which have a name-collision in
> > one of their files, where the alternatives system is not applicable
> > (which is only supposed to be used for several variants of the same
> > binary/interface, like vi and vim).
> 
> See policy section 10.1 [1]: The binaries must be renamed in such a
> case. 

Fair enough, so let's keep it.

Do you have any further pending changes for elk-lpaw?  Otherwise, I'll
upload the package now.


Michael



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