Control: tags -1 moreinfo Andrew Shadura: > Package: release.debian.org > Severity: normal > User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org > Usertags: unblock > > Please unblock package pkgconf. > > Since pkg-config (= 0.29-1), pkg-config package provides > /usr/bin/$DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE-pkg-config symlinks as explained in #842529. > Build tools already expect those symlinks in place, which causes random build > failures when pkgconf is pulled instead of pkg-config. > > This upload fixes the issue by syncing cross-wrapper from pkg-config, > adopting dpkg hook from pkg-config and preventing pkg-config from being > co-installed with pkgconf: > > [...] > > Thanks. > > unblock pkgconf/0.9.12-3 > >
Hi, Thanks for providing this fix. I got one question about the "Breaks". Why Breaks and why a versioned breaks rather than an unconditional Conflicts? AFAICT, pkgconf attempts to be an "mutually exclusive alternative" to pkg-config (a la exim vs. postfix). Thanks, ~Niels
