Bug#629998: suckless-tools and swift: error when trying to install together

2011-07-03 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Thomas Goirand wrote: > I'm wondering, and you still didn't reply my question: what is the use > of "st" in suckless-tools? Is it a binary called by the user, or barely > just launched by a script? Sorry, I missed your question. "st" is a program that people launch, like xterm (in fact, it is an

Bug#629998: suckless-tools and swift: error when trying to install together

2011-07-03 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 07/04/2011 01:57 AM, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 01:19 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: >> On 07/04/2011 12:15 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >>> Or at least to add the Conflicts >>> to swift to prevent immediate breakage? >> >> Yes, and this should be also put into suckless-tools unt

Bug#629998: suckless-tools and swift: error when trying to install together

2011-07-03 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Thomas Goirand wrote: > What other fix do you propose? I don't want to rename "st" if upstream > calls it this way in swift upstream, and have a delta between Debian and > Ubuntu. Are you proposing to rename "st" in suckless-tools? What would > be the impact? I was suggesting: 1) as a short-ter

Bug#629998: suckless-tools and swift: error when trying to install together

2011-07-03 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 07/04/2011 01:22 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Thomas Goirand wrote: >> On 07/04/2011 12:15 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > >>> Would it not be possible to patch swift to rename the binary or put it >>> somewhere outside of $PATH locally? >> >> Not until it also happens upstream. I'd rather maintai

Bug#629998: suckless-tools and swift: error when trying to install together

2011-07-03 Thread Adam D. Barratt
On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 01:19 +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 07/04/2011 12:15 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > Or at least to add the Conflicts > > to swift to prevent immediate breakage? > > Yes, and this should be also put into suckless-tools until this is solved. No, it shouldn't. Adding the C

Bug#629998: suckless-tools and swift: error when trying to install together

2011-07-03 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 07/04/2011 12:15 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: >> Would it not be possible to patch swift to rename the binary or put it >> somewhere outside of $PATH locally? > > Not until it also happens upstream. I'd rather maintain a Conflicts: > flag rather than doing double work when

Bug#629998: suckless-tools and swift: error when trying to install together

2011-07-03 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 07/04/2011 12:15 AM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Would it not be possible to patch swift to rename the binary or put it > somewhere outside of $PATH locally? Not until it also happens upstream. I'd rather maintain a Conflicts: flag rather than doing double work when upstream is already aware of th

Bug#629998: suckless-tools and swift: error when trying to install together

2011-07-03 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Thomas Goirand wrote: > This is a longterm project, so IMHO, you shouldn't have reassigned this > issue. I see no way that I can solve it right now, so if the maintainers > of suckless-tools could add a "Conflicts:" for the moment, that would be > a good idea. Such a Conflicts would violate Debia

Bug#629998: suckless-tools and swift: error when trying to install together

2011-07-03 Thread Thomas Goirand
On 07/03/2011 12:41 PM, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > reassign 629998 swift 1.3.0-1 > tags 629998 + upstream > retitle 629998 swift: error when installing with suckless-tools (st binary > conflicts with "simple terminal") > quit > > Hi Ralf, > > Ralf Treinen wrote: > >> dpkg: error processing /var/c

Bug#629998: suckless-tools and swift: error when trying to install together

2011-07-02 Thread Jonathan Nieder
reassign 629998 swift 1.3.0-1 tags 629998 + upstream retitle 629998 swift: error when installing with suckless-tools (st binary conflicts with "simple terminal") quit Hi Ralf, Ralf Treinen wrote: > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/swift_1.3.0-1_all.deb > (--unpack): > trying to

Bug#629998: suckless-tools and swift: error when trying to install together

2011-06-09 Thread Ralf Treinen
Package: swift,suckless-tools Version: swift/1.3.0-1 Version: suckless-tools/38-1 Severity: serious User: trei...@debian.org Usertags: edos-file-overwrite Date: 2011-06-10 Architecture: amd64 Distribution: sid Hi, automatic installation tests of packages that share a file and at the same time do