Control: reopen -1 Control: reassign -1 spl 0.7.9-3 Control: retitle -1 spl: conflicts with splat, but should not
"D. R. Evans" writes: > Marked as important, since this problem prevents installation here, so the > program cannot be used. > > Synaptic reports that installation of this package will remove: > debian-zfs > spl > > It doesn't seem likely that an application program such as splat could > possibly > care one way or another that there are ZFS filesystems on the system, or the > presence of the Solaris porting layer kernel module (which is needed for ZFS). > > Note that I am not actually trying to install splat on a ZFS filesystem: but > there are ZFS filesystems on the machine. The issue is that "spl" has "Conflicts: splat". spl provides /usr/sbin/splat, while splat provides /usr/bin/splat. However "Conflicts" is the wrong way to solve this, see [1]: "Two different packages must not install programs with different functionality but with the same filenames." Ansgar [1] <https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-files.html#s-binaries>
