On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 2:55 PM, Rene Engelhard <r...@debian.org> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 27, 2015 at 02:47:58PM +0200, Rohan Garg wrote: >> I'm in a similar situation as the rest of the users in the thread >> where I recompile Ubuntu's packages for use on my Debian system. It >> would be super awesome if you could add the version specifier as >> Ubuntu does in the Conflicts field so that I can co install >> Thunderbird with hunspell. > > This is Debian and we don't ship a "thunderbird", so no. How often someone > tries is not relevant, I will not change it. > > If Ubuntu thinks they need to ship thunderbird with ignoring the issues which > lead to the rename of thunderbird to icedeove they need to care about the > fallout themselves. > > And TTBOMK if you "recompile Ubuntu's packages for use on my Debian system" > (for whatever nonsensical reason I don't see) then you use Ubuntus packages > which allow thunderbird. If not, that's a bug there, not here. > > Regards, > > Rene
Just thought I'd point out that it seems that other Maintainers seem to have taken a more sensible approach IMHO and have properly versioned their Conflicts ( atleast that seems to be the case for hunspell-de-de and hunspell-eu-es ) Cheers Rohan Garg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
