ssh-import-id comments

[Dustin Kirkland]

On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 8:54 AM, Dustin Kirkland <kirkland at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> 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.

Fix uploaded to Natty.

>> 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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Dustin Kirkland
Ubuntu Core Developer