"Eugene V. Lyubimkin" <jac...@debian.org> writes:
> Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
>> No. They can trivially see if two packages have conflicting files. Ther=
> e
>> is a Replaces entry in the package.
> Two package with conflicting files may not have Replaces if they are tota=
> lly
> different.
Then they will get bugreports about causing file overwrite errors in
dpkg.
Policy 7.6.1: Firstly, as mentioned before, it is usually an error for
a package to contain files which are on the system in another package.
...
MfG
Goswin
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