[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#599474: Bug#599474: policykit-1: should surely conflict with policykit

[Michael Biebl]

On 07.10.2010 22:12, Yann Dirson wrote:
> Package: policykit-1
> Version: 0.96-3
> Severity: serious
> 
> Trying to investigate an issue with permissions on removable drives,
> and with the stable repo available from my squeeze box, a quick search
> fro "policykit" in aptitude brings a "policykit" package (which I did
> not notice was only available from stable).  Thinking polkit had not
> been installed for an obscure reason, I installed the package
> successfully, just to notice by chance that the new package is
> policykit-1.
> 
> * this is confusing

I'll give you that

> * it may possibly break something

That is hand waving. I don't know of any case where having policykit installed
broke policykit-1 or vice versa.

policykit and policykit-1 were designed to be co-installable. From a technical
pov there is no need for a conflicts.

> * we surely don't want that old package to be left isntalled when
>   upgrading from lenny

policykit is no longer available in squeeze/sid and no package depends on it
anymore. So this bug only matters for upgrades. On upgrades though, the package
should be removed automatically (e.g. by apt-get autoremove).

> I hope that makes the severity adequate.

tbh, I'm tempted to just close this bug. Unnecessary conflicts just make it
harder for apt(itude) to calculate the upgrade path.

And as said, cleaning up of such "cruft" packages can be done via other mechanisms.

I'm open though to opinions of the release team and if they want to see such a
conflicts for upgrades or not.

Regards,
Michael


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