r6744 - packages/trunk/openal-soft/debian

Andres Mejia mcitadel at gmail.com
Sat Apr 26 00:36:15 UTC 2008


On Friday 25 April 2008 8:30:38 pm Emmet Hikory wrote:
> Stefan Potyra wrote:
> >  Am Samstag 26 April 2008 01:37:41 schrieb Andres Mejia:
> >  > This is why I left out a Conflicts field. In this way, libopenal1 will
> >  > only replace files from libopenal0a if the two packages have the same
> >  > file. The way it's done does not mean it will remove libopenal0a or
> >  > libopenal0. Look at Debian Policy 7.5.1.
> >
> >  but what files would it overwrite then? If there are any files in the
> > package, which don't have the package name of the library in the
> > path/name, these shouldn't be part of a library package in the first
> > place. Others than that, there shouldn't be files to overwrite, or am I
> > missing s.th.?
>
>     /etc/openalrc comes immediately to mind (without deep
> investigation of libopenal1).

Yes, although openal-soft uses a different path for that file. Come to think 
of it, these files should go in their own package.

-- 
Regards,
Andres



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