On Wed, 26 Nov 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote: > However, let me make another suggestion: We add a new control field to our > packages, namely `Distributor'. All Debian packages will get > > `Distributor: SPI' > > and everyone outside the project should use something else, e.g. > > `Distributor: KDE Project' (or how they call themselves--I don't > know) > > Then we could extend dpkg/dselect/deity to check for this field and warn > the user if he/she tries to mix such packages. Of course, there should be > a way to override these warnings (just when someone tries to override some > dependencies).
That looks like a good proposal. We could define that a foo_A.deb from SPI will always conflict with a foo_B.deb from other parties, no matter the values for A and B. -- Enrique Zanardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dpto. Fisica Fundamental y Experimental Univ. de La Laguna
