Re: Question about a package conflict

2007-05-08 Thread John Stamp
On Tuesday 08 May 2007, Steve Langasek wrote: > Uh, you shouldn't have to depend on gconf just for the file anyway. >  Call the registration hook in the postinst only if gconf is > installed, and no dependency is needed. > > Then no split is needed, and alternatives still sound like the best > opti

Re: Question about a package conflict

2007-05-08 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 12:35:24PM -0700, John Stamp wrote: > On Monday 07 May 2007, Steve Langasek wrote: > > - have both packages depend on a common file providing the schema > > file (a bit heavy of a solution for a single schema file..) > What if I split lastfm into 'lastfm' and 'lastfm-gconf'

Re: Question about a package conflict

2007-05-08 Thread John Stamp
On Monday 07 May 2007, Steve Langasek wrote: > - have both packages depend on a common file providing the schema > file (a bit heavy of a solution for a single schema file..) What if I split lastfm into 'lastfm' and 'lastfm-gconf' and then have lastfm Suggests: lastfm-gconf? This may still be he

Re: Question about a package conflict

2007-05-07 Thread John Stamp
On Monday 07 May 2007, John Stamp wrote: > But will gconf have problems if 2 schema files are referencing the > same url-handler? Answering my own question: "Yes." Let's say I have 2 packages 'a' and 'b' that want to register the same keys but in different schema files. Install a, gconf registe

Re: Question about a package conflict

2007-05-07 Thread Bryan Donlan
On 5/7/07, John Stamp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Monday 07 May 2007, Steve Langasek wrote: > Options: > > - give each package a unique schemas filename so that no conflict > is needed > - have one of the packages depend on the other (doesn't > sound like a correct solution here) > - have b

Re: Question about a package conflict

2007-05-07 Thread John Stamp
On Monday 07 May 2007, Steve Langasek wrote: > Options: > > - give each package a unique schemas filename so that no conflict > is needed > - have one of the packages depend on the other (doesn't > sound like a correct solution here) > - have both packages depend on a common file providing th

Re: Question about a package conflict

2007-05-07 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 03:51:26PM -0700, John Stamp wrote: > In my previous upload of lastfm I removed gconf/defaults/10_lastfm and > used a gconf/schemas/lastfm.schemas file instead. This closed the > following bug: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=369907 > Unfortunately,

Question about a package conflict

2007-05-07 Thread John Stamp
Hi all, In my previous upload of lastfm I removed gconf/defaults/10_lastfm and used a gconf/schemas/lastfm.schemas file instead. This closed the following bug: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=369907 Unfortunately, that conflicts with last-exit which also installs a lastfm.s