Bug#680225: closed by Adrian Knoth <adi at drcomp.erfurt.thur.de> (Re: Bug#680225: libjack-jackd2-0 conflicts with libjack0)

[Felipe Sateler]

On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Thorsten Glaser <tg at mirbsd.de> wrote:
> Debian Bug Tracking System dixit:
>
>>Their explanation is attached below along with your original report.
>
>>This is a known problem with ia32-libs. Don't use it, use multiarch
>
> Hm, this doesn’t work for stuff that directly depends on ia32-libs.
> But I guess it would be best for ia32-libs to use an alternative
> dependency here.

Yes, there is already a bug (680153) with a patch already, but so far
no response from the maintainers.

> (Still, why do these two conflict with each other?
> That was why waldi suggested to me to report that.)

Because jack1 and jack2 are alternative implementations of the jack
ABI. They are meant to be switchable without recompiling clients,
which is why they have the same soname. They cannot be installed at
the same time because of the file conflict, though.

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler