Brian White writes: >> > To make people report these duplications. A lot of bugs have been >> > submitted and many of those have been fixed now. The result will be that >> > there will be a lot less of these imperfections in hamm when it is >> > released. When it is released, --force-overwrite is supposed to be turned >> > on again (and off again on the next upload to the new unstable.) >> >> Is it considered to be an "error" to have a file in 2 different >> packages? If that's the case, it would be enough a "script inspection" >> at the "Contents" file. Look, for example: >> >> (...) >> usr/man/man8/ftpd.8.gz >> net/wu-ftpd,net/netstd >> usr/man/man8/ftpshut.8.gz >> net/wu-ftpd,net/proftpd,net/wu-ftpd-academ >> (...) >> usr/man/man8/getclose.8.gz >> devel/gnats-user,devel/gnats >> (...)
> Unfortunately, that is insufficient. For example, "gnats" and "gnats-user" > are mutually exclusive. Each conflicts with the other. You comment is very precise, but isolating the names of the packages, and running dpkg to see if they both (or at least one of them, because of some weird upgrade cases) conflict with the other would not take more than 5 lines of perl, and, yes: I know someone out there could do it in only 1 line :^> > Brian > ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Seize the moment! Live now. Make "now" always the most important > time. -- JLP -- Luiz Otavio L. Zorzella Product Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.conexware.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]