Russ Allbery <r...@debian.org> writes: > Tobias Frost <t...@frost.de> writes:
>> Looking at #262257, as an exampple, there are packages which declares >> conflicts for whatever reason. However, the reason is NOT, that thec >> packages could not co-existent on the same system (For the example, >> retchmail could be also installed with fetchmail -- they do not >> interfere) >> My wishlist-entry would be to clarify, tha conflicts should only be >> used, if the packages "won't do" if both installed... (as the word >> "conflict" implies. The reason "the other package is doing the same, so >> conflict on it to prevent both installed" is -- IMHO -- not the >> intention of conflicts > This really should be common sense, but it doesn't hurt to say it > explicitly, which I don't think we were doing before. Here's a patch > that implements that. I've now merged this change for the next release. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87ocejnv9v....@windlord.stanford.edu
