Where to report a bug?

[Robert Heller]

At Sun, 9 Apr 2023 16:26:21 -0500 "Ubuntu user technical support,? not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

> 
> On 4/9/23 2:37 PM, Robert Heller wrote:
> > I need to report a bug (which I thought I reported years ago).
> > 
> > It is just a packaging error:
> > 
> > For some reason, installing bison++ causes bison to be removed (and vice
> > versa). This is not really necessary -- bison++ does not actually conflict
> > eith bison. The two packages are completely independent. Yes, from some points
> > of view they can be said to be replacements of each other, but they are
> > different and it does make sense to have both installed at the same time.
> > 
> 
> Here's your bug report
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bison++/+bug/1607408
> 
> The reason there's a conflict is due to both bison and bison++ supplying 
> /usr/bin/bison, which is a filename collision. AIUI, bison++ is based on 
> a older version of bison so it makes sense that it has a /usr/bin/bison 
> that's different from the one supplied by the bison package.

bison++ supplies /usr/bin/bison++, NOT /usr/bin/bison.  There aren't any 
actual file conflicts.  

> 
> Unlikely to get traction with Ubuntu bug tracker since the package lives 
> upstream in Debian and also conflicts with the bison package there too. 
> Looking at its changelog it seems to be in maintenance mode and its 
> development appears to have halted in the mid-90's.
> 

I guess I will need to download the sources for both packages and fix them 
myself.  (Unless there is a "trick" to tell apt to ignore the conflict.)


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