On Mon, Jul 20, 2020 at 6:48 PM Adrian Bunk wrote: > Policy says this is not an option, and I agree with policy.
Hmm, I thought Policy was amended to allow it, woops. > If we start allowing conflicts between completely unrelated packages > it might not end well in the long run. We already have had situations where related packages effectively conflict, for example for a while mypaint and gimp couldn't be installed together on the same system running testing. > Imagine the GNU Interactive Tools would still provide /usr/bin/git > with such a Conflicts. IMO that wouldn't have been a big problem given the relative popularity of the two packages. -- bye, pabs https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
