Hi Antonin, On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 09:37:36AM +0100, Antonin Kral wrote: > I've received about dozen 'bug reports' about the fact, that pimd and > smcroute cannot be used in parallel. I've decided to add smcroute as > conflict to pimd.
This is fine with me, but shouldn't we instead use a virtual package such as (the currently not yet existing package) 'multicast-routing-daemon' that both packages provide and conflict with? This is the generic mechanism to ensure that there is only one implementation of a certain daemon installed at a time. And this would also work if yet another multicast routing daemon is uploaded to Debian which then simply needs to provide/conflict this virtual package too in order to conflict with all existing multicast routing daemon packages... > Both packages are currently 'optional', so adding the conflict violates > policy: > > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-priorities > > 'Note that optional packages should not conflict with each other.' > > So the simplest way would be to change priority of both packages to > 'extra'. How do you feel about such change? Change in pimd is handled in > Bug#609861 Priority 'extra' is fine with me too. Regards, Micha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
