On Fri, Jan 8, 2010 at 12:33:32 +0100, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > On Fr, Jan 08, 2010 at 07:50:33 (CET), Luk Claes wrote: > > >> That bugreport has very long discussion threads, and after skimming > >> them, I didn't understand how that bug relates to this situation. > >> > >> Here in vlc, both conflicts are versioned. Both apt and aptitude should > >> be able to find the obvious solution: pick the latest version of both > >> packages. How can this cause problems? > > > > New vlc needs vlc-nox to be installed first, but the new vlc-nox > > conflicts with the installed version of vlc... > > That doesn't answer my question. > > The (obvious) solution to this dependency situation is to upgrade both > vlc and vlc-nox at the same time. Both apt and aptitude seem to find > this solution. > It doesn't make sense to have conflicts on a package you depend on. What are you trying to achieve with that?
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