On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 07:45:14PM -0400, Antoine Beaupré wrote: > At this point, moreutils doesn't conflict with gnu parallel, and that is > intentional. It is gnu parallel that conflicts with moreutils. > > I talked briefly with Joey about this. Obviously, it's a rather annoying > issue for him, since the whole thing went as far as a CTTE bug > (#665851). The result of that discussion were unclear: no decision was > reached by the CTTE. > > From what I understand, joey doesn't want to be bothered with this. He > barely has time to maintain moreutils at all and has critical opinion of > gnu parallel, which breaks his ikiwiki-hosting package. Therefore, > ikiwiki-hosting conflicts with gnu parallel.
understood, thanks for the context! > So I doubt we can coninve Joey to fix this problem the way we are > proposing now, but it's possible. > > If someone wants to go forward here, there would need to be a set of > patches that would create conflicting binary packages for both that will > divert /usr/bin/parallel. A patch on ikiwiki-hosting to depend on > moreutils-parallel would also then be necessary. Is dpkg-divert a strict requirement? Would alternatives suffices (e.g. like netcat does)? > Then we send this to the moreutils and gnu parallel maintainers to see > if they would accept the fix, and we can simply NMU it. > > But the main problem, to restate what Joey has said here, is time: it > takes time to do that work and unless someone steps up to help the > maintainers patiently to clear things up, things will stay as they > currently are. true, I am willing to give it a shot but we're probably far too late in the release cycle to get this into jessie (won't be wasted work anyway tho!) filippo -- http://esaurito.net - 0x99D49B6B00CAD1E5 - ⠠⠵ God may not play dice with the universe, but something strange is going on with the prime numbers. -- Paul Erdos -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
