Bug#402721: Please make clear, that conflicts should only be used when really necessary

2010-07-09 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Guillem Jover guil...@debian.org (04/07/2010): Yeah, but I've also witnessed (and reported) several of those for shared libraries on SONAME bump. Me too, thanks (for jumping in quicker than I). Also had cases where maintainers didn't want to investigate a given situation (common binary names

Bug#402721: Please make clear, that conflicts should only be used when really necessary

2010-07-07 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery r...@debian.org writes: Tobias Frost t...@frost.de writes: Looking at #262257, as an exampple, there are packages which declares conflicts for whatever reason. However, the reason is NOT, that thec packages could not co-existent on the same system (For the example, retchmail

Bug#402721: Please make clear, that conflicts should only be used when really necessary

2010-07-04 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Sat, 2010-07-03 at 13:28:26 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: Tobias Frost t...@frost.de writes: Looking at #262257, as an exampple, there are packages which declares conflicts for whatever reason. However, the reason is NOT, that thec packages could not co-existent on the same system (For

Bug#402721: Please make clear, that conflicts should only be used when really necessary

2010-07-04 Thread Jakub Wilk
* Russ Allbery r...@debian.org, 2010-07-03, 13:28: --- a/policy.sgml +++ b/policy.sgml @@ -4778,6 +4778,15 @@ Build-Depends: foo [linux-any], bar [any-i386], baz [!linux-any] /p p + Neither ttBreaks/tt nor ttConflicts/tt should be used + unless two packages

Bug#402721: Please make clear, that conflicts should only be used when really necessary

2010-07-03 Thread Russ Allbery
Tobias Frost t...@frost.de writes: Looking at #262257, as an exampple, there are packages which declares conflicts for whatever reason. However, the reason is NOT, that thec packages could not co-existent on the same system (For the example, retchmail could be also installed with fetchmail --