Bug#362852: Undeclared conflicts: pathname conflict at usr/share/man/man8/sendmail.8.gz between hula-mta, exim4-base

[Andreas Metzler]

tags 362852 confirmed
reassign 362852 exim4-base
found 362852 4.60-2
thanks

On 2006-04-16 Justin Pryzby <justinpryzby at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Package: hula-mta,exim4-base
> Severity: serious

> The etch release policy states that:

> | http://release.debian.org/etch_rc_policy.txt
> |       If two packages cannot be installed together, one must list
> |       the other in its "Conflicts:" field.

> Both hula-mta and exim4-base include the pathname
> usr/share/man/man8/sendmail.8.gz, but neither of them declare an
> appropriate "Conflicts:", which is not allowed.
[...]

hula-mta Provides/Conflicts/Replaces mail-transport-agent, which makes
this an exim4 bug. It was introduced in 4.60-2 with

  * move man pages from daemon packages to exim4-base, add lintian
    and linda overrides to allow daemon packages not to contain man pages.

thanks for finding this, cu andreas
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