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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