jack2 packaging

[Kaj Ailomaa]

On Fri, Jun 14, 2013, at 03:47 PM, Adrian Knoth wrote:
> Frankly, I don't like your idea of splitting the package and defining a
> conflict between them. There has to be a better solution which allows
> for co-installation.
> 
> One could further split the jackd2 package into something like
> 
>    - jackd2-backends (all the .so files)
>    - jackd2-jackd (depends on jackd2-backends)
>    - jackd2-jackdbus (depends on jackd2-backends)
> 
> 
> and allow both jackd2-jackd{,dbus} packages to be co-installable. Of
> course, people can still mess it up, but at least there's a clear
> separation for those who want "easy" and "I can have both" for those who
> need it.
> 

Perhaps we could add a install script asking the user whether or not to
remove the other one, and explain why they might want to do that.

> 
> And while we're at it, let's move the manpages and the debconf files to
> jackd-defaults to avoid code duplication between jackd1 and jackd2.
> 
>