Bug#482894: Please, open again the bug

[Luk Claes]

Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> Fabian Greffrath <greffrath at leat.rub.de> writes:
> 
>> Reinhard Tartler schrieb:
>>>> should we add Conflicts against libav* (>> 3:20080706) to all our
>>>> library packages or is this a crazy idea?
>>> no, this won't work. we cannot conflict against our own packages.
>> Sure, but how about our libavutil pakage Conflicting against all of
>> Marillat's packages except libavutil itself? All our packages depend on
>> libavutil, so this would solve half the problem.
> 
> then our libavutil would conflict against our other packages. I don't
> think this will work.
> 
>> We could do the same for our libavcodec package (conflicting against
>> all of Marillat's packages except libavcodec itself). This should fix
>> many of the problems, or do I miss anything?
> 
> I think this will result in uninstallable packages, unless I didn't
> misunderstood your proposal.

Please don't add extra logic in Debian packages to conflict against
packages outside Debian. This is not scalable for a start, anyone can
start asking for more conflicts. The other way around is scalable and
logical: add conflicts in packages outside Debian against packages
inside Debian if necessary.

Cheers

Luk