Andrey Rahmatullin <w...@debian.org> writes: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 09:21:14AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> apt is going to have no idea what to do for a system that already has >> the previous package installed. > This is not a problem as upgrading to an unrelated software is not > something that we should care about. I agree it's probably not going to cause problems in practice in this case (ironically, it's probably worse for the new software to have a higher version in terms of unexpected apt behavior), but it's still breaking apt's version model, and I'm not sure I can think through all the implications. Ideally, we would never reuse the name of a binary package for some unrelated piece of software, although I know that's not realistic in the real world. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
