ssh-import-id comments

Dustin Kirkland kirkland at ubuntu.com
Wed Jan 5 14:54:49 UTC 2011


On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 5:36 AM, Colin Watson <cjwatson at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> Please make the Conflicts a Breaks instead.  The policy manual was
> changed a little while back to give better guidance on this, and now
> says:
>
>     `Breaks' should be used
>
>        * when moving a file from one package to another (see Section 7.6,
>          `Overwriting files and replacing packages - `Replaces''),
>
>        * when splitting a package (a special case of the previous one), or
>
>        * when the breaking package exposes a bug in or interacts badly
>          with particular versions of the broken package.
>
>     `Conflicts' should be used
>
>        * when two packages provide the same file and will continue to do
>          so,
>
>        * in conjunction with `Provides' when only one package providing a
>          given virtual facility may be installed at a time (see Section
>          7.5, `Virtual packages - `Provides''),
>
>        * in other cases where one must prevent simultaneous installation
>          of two packages for reasons that are ongoing (not fixed in a
>          later version of one of the packages) or that must prevent both
>          packages from being unpacked at the same time, not just
>          configured.

Thank you.  I should have mentioned that wasn't 100% confident on that part.

> Did you deliberately decide to drop the ssh-import-lp-id symlink?

Yes, I did drop it on purpose.  I'll ask mvo if he can add a
command-not-fount hint.

> Thanks for doing this, though!  It looks otherwise fine and I've
> accepted it.

No problem.  Thank you.

Dustin



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