<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 7/25/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Reinhard Tartler</b> <<a href="mailto:siretart@tauware.de">siretart@tauware.de</a>> wrote:</span> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Steven Hazel wrote:<br>> Okay.  At first blush, it looks like these license problems are<br>> fairly superficial -- I'll bring it up around here and see whether we can <br>> get them resolved.<br><br>That would be really great. If that happens, we can fix the package<br>directly in place when some transition or other changes to dependencies<br>happen.</blockquote> <div> </div> <div>We've got someone writing this up for our lawyers now, so hopefully this will work out.</div> <div> </div> <div> </div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">I didn't really get the problem, if your package installs files, which<br>are are provided by other packages, you have to add a 'Conflicts:'. If <br>you want to provide 'upgrade' packages for ubuntu users, just keep the<br>package name 'bittorrent', so the ubuntu package gets upgraded. Note<br>that this is likely to break the system of your users when they upgrade <br>to the next ubuntu release.<br><br>Can you perhaps be more verbose on what you are actually trying and what<br>actually breaks?</blockquote> <div> </div> <div>Here's the issue:</div> <div> </div> <div>My bittorrent 4 package conflicts with the older bittorrent 3 package.  It has to, because both packages install files with the same names under /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/BitTorrent.  No problem so far, just uninstall the old version of bittorrent to get the new one.  </div> <div> </div> <div>Another package, gnome-btdownload, requires bittorrent 3.  It uses some of the bittorrent 3 files from /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/BitTorrent as a library, and that interface is not preserved in bittorrent 4, so this is a legitimate requirement.  All that would be fine -- users could chose to remove bittorrent 3 and gnome-btdownload and install bittorrent 4 instead.   </div> <div> </div> <div>But, ubuntu-desktop requires gnome-btdownload.  So now users have to chose between bittorrent 4, and the Task package that keeps their whole ubuntu desktop install updating properly.</div> <div> </div></div>-- <br>Steven Hazel<br>work: <a href="mailto:sah@bittorrent.com">sah@bittorrent.com</a><br>other: <a href="mailto:sah@thalassocracy.org">sah@thalassocracy.org</a>