On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 03:30:03PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > ]] Jakub Wilk
> | Shouldn't dak reject debs with duplicate filenames in the first place? > > No, packages might very well ship duplicate files (think all mtas > shipping /usr/sbin/sendmail) but they then have to conflict + replace. Some statistics on that, since I am testing for possible package installation errors due to file hijacking: in sid (main+contrib+ nonfree) we have about 1000 pairs of packages that share at least one path name. Only about 65 of them can be installed together, the remaining ones are directly or indirectly in conflict. And among the 65 which can be installed together, almost all of them use a diversion of Replaces (otherwise they'll a get a Serious bug report from me when I catch them :-) http://edos.debian.net/file-overwrites/ -Ralf. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110312162949.ga2...@free.fr
