> As our packaging format becomes more popular (and we really want it, > don't we?) there will be more upstream authors that package their > programs as "deb" but don't follow our policies (non-FSSTND-compliant > packages, for example). > > What are we going to do to avoid conflicts between their versions and our > own packaged ones? I guess virtual-packages is not the optimal solution...
i agree. that is the problem. but we have to take care of it, we can't move the responsibility of creating correct conflicts etc. to the authors. i know that virtual-packages are not the optimal solution, but it's working till we have something better. and two virtual names to manage 16 packages isn't a bad ratio :-) andreas
