Re: [PATCH] scripts/package/builddeb: upgrade to current practices

[maximilian attems]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 10:46:23PM +0300, Martin-Éric Racine wrote:
> 2012/7/17 Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx>:
> >>
> >>  Package: $fwpackagename
> >>  Architecture: all
> >> +Conflicts: firmware-linux-free, firmware-linux-nonfree
> >> +Provides: firmware-linux-free, firmware-linux-nonfree
> >> +Replaces: firmware-linux-free, firmware-linux-nonfree
> >
> > I assume you mean Breaks+Replaces.  Do the files actually overlap,
> > or is this change being overly cautious?  I would expect the files
> > not to overlap because the package build with deb-pkg puts firmware
> > in a versioned subdirectory "/lib/firmware/<version>".
> 
> AFAIK they would overlap, hence the Conflicts.

This is wrong and properly fixed in -next.

-- 
maks
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