Bug#764448: mate-applets 1.8.1+dfsg1-1 tries to overwrite files in gnome-applets 3.8.1-1

[Mike Gabriel]

Hi Giacomo,

On  Mi 08 Okt 2014 09:28:07 CEST, Giacomo Mulas wrote:

> Dear Maintainer,
>
> the new version 1.8.1+dfsg1-1 of mate-applets contains files with the same
> name as gnome-applets 3.8.1-1. As a consequence, it is uninstallable if one
> also installs gnome-applets. This means that on sid, at the moment, I cannot
> install on a machine a full gnome desktop and a full mate desktop at the
> same time, letting individual users choose which one they prefer to use.
>
> Suggested solutions:
>
> 1) quick and dirty (unsatisfactory for me, but can be a temporary band aid):
> add a conflicts with gnome-applets
>
> 2) optimal solution: change the names of the conflicting applets (possibly
> coordinating with the gnome-applets maintainer)
>
> 3) less work than 2) but also less good: use the debian alternatives system
> to make mate and gnome applets with the same name coexist (definitely
> coordinating with the gnome-applets maintainer)
>
> 4) something else that I did not think about
>
> Bye
> Giacomo Mulas

Thanks for reporting this. This needs to be fixed upstream+downstream.

What are the files that trouble you (and us all)? (Asking, because I  
can't check right now, because I am at a customer).

Mike

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