[Piuparts-devel] potential-cross-conflicts.py does not detect some already known problems?

[Ralf Treinen]

Hi Andreas,

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 08:35:44PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:

> there are a list of file overwrite errors detected by piupsrts on
> upgrades, e.g. squeeze2wheezy:
> http://piuparts.debian.org/squeeze2wheezy/overwrite_other_packages_files_error.html
> but I don't see them as candidates produced by potential-cross-conflicts.py

there was indeed a stupid bug in potential-cross-conflicts. I just pushed
a fixed version to the git repository. The new vesion finds most of the
conflicts mentionend on the web page. 

One reason why a file conflict might not be found by my script  is that
an installation request triggers installation of other packages from
the same distribution, and the file conflict occurs between these
packages. My script only generates candidates where one package is in
the first distribution, and the other one in the second distribution.

Cheers -Ralf.
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Ralf Treinen
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Université Paris Diderot, Paris, France.
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