On 26/03/11 09:10, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > On Sat, 26 Mar 2011, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort wrote: >> I'd also mandate the use of build-ids for .ddebs and add refcounting support >> (like has been done for multiarch AFAIK) to dpkg for them, so we don't need >> to >> worry about Conflicts / Replaces. > > For multi-arch, it's the _same_ package (but just another architecture of it) > that > can share _identical_ files and where we have refcounting. > > This can't be generalized to just any package, it's just contrary to the > logic of our packaging tools. > > When do you have such conflicts? I hear when you have the same binary in > multiple package... but in that case both packages already conflict and > you can just copy the existing conlict field and add the -ddeb suffix.
Not necessarily, e.g. you can have the same binary in different paths, or with different names. > Otherwise maybe there's a way to include the package name in the path > to avoid such conflicts? I don't think so. Otherwise gdb wouldn't know where to look for it. Emilio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d8db383.7010...@debian.org
