[Pkg-raspi-maintainers] Bug#919617: python-gpiozero file conflict with python3-gpiozero

[Ben Nuttall]

On Fri, 18 Jan 2019 01:42:55 +0000 Peter Green <plugwash-urgent at p10link.net>
wrote:
> Package: python-gpiozero
> Version: 1.4.1-1
> Severity: serious
>
> The 1.4.1-1 upload of gpiozero added the "pinout" utility, unfortunately
it added it to both the python-gpiozero and python3-gpiozero packages. The
result is a file conflict between the two packages.

Agreed

>
> I see two possible solutions.
>
> 1. Drop the utility from one of the packages, if going down this road I
would probablly drop it from the python-gpiozero package since python 2 is
deprecated.
> 2. Install the utility with a different name or path in each package and
then use the alternatives mechanism to select between them.

We do 1) in RPF Raspbian. I think this is the correct approach.
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