On Fri, Sep 2, 2022 at 15:01:01 +0200, Sylvestre Ledru wrote: > Le 02/09/2022 à 13:18, Adrian Bunk a écrit : > > On Fri, Sep 02, 2022 at 12:12:06PM +0200, Christoph Biedl wrote: > > > Sylvestre Ledru wrote... > > > > > > > I don't think renaming is the right approach against an MS-DOS > > > > software (and I still think that Debian's policy is too binary for > > > > this). > > > > > > As there is a very small chance users would want to install *both* > > > packages, can't we just resolve this with a Breaks: on both sides, or > > > anything else that prevents co-installation from happening? > > > ... > > > > "Two different packages must not install programs with different > > functionality but with the same filenames."[1] > > > Yeah, but with that many packages in the archive, it makes less and less > sense ... > I would say it makes more and more sense, on the contrary, for the distribution to do this job to avoid arbitrary conflicts.
Cheers, Julien
