reopen 318590 severity 318590 serious thanks So my package, libofx, builds a binary that wants to use curl. My package is GPL'd. Getting a libssl exemption is not the right thing, nor should it be necessary.
I would like to build the package against libcurl3-gnutls-dev which will be just fine. Except that I can't even *install* libcurl3-gnutls-dev on my development system, because libcurl3-gnutls conflicts with libcurl3, and openoffice.org and many other important programs I rely on link against libcurl3. It is *not acceptible* for two Optional packages to conflict with each other. It has been *against policy* for as long as we've had policy. It is *absolutely intolerable* to declare such conflicts for shared libraries, where there are easy solutions: MAKE TWO LIBRARIES THAT HAVE DIFFERENT NAMES. There should be TWO libcurls, with DIFFERENT names, and then applications can simply link against whichever one they want, instead of the current approach, which totally breaks, violates policy, and doesn't really help much of anyone. Thomas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
