Package: nodejs Version: 0.2.6-1 Severity: serious Tags: experimental It appears that nodejs in experimental has acquired a Conflicts with node. According to the changes file for that release:
* Use upstream binary names for node and node-waf, conflicts with node package. (Closes: #597571) I still don't believe that is allowed by Debian Policy. Section 10.1 states: Two different packages must not install programs with different functionality but with the same filenames. (The case of two programs having the same functionality but different implementations is handled via "alternatives" or the "Conflicts" mechanism. See Section 3.9, `Maintainer Scripts' and Section 7.4, `Conflicting binary packages - `Conflicts'' respectively.) If this case happens, one of the programs must be renamed. The maintainers should report this to the `debian-devel' mailing list and try to find a consensus about which program will have to be renamed. If a consensus cannot be reached, _both_ programs must be renamed. #597571 had been marked wontfix, but then was mysteriously closed in experimental. If this isn't in contravention of Debian Policy (which is possible, I suppose), then what's been done to resolve it so it isn't should be put in README.Debian or NEWS.Debian. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0 APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.37-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash -- brian m. carlson / brian with sandals: Houston, Texas, US +1 832 623 2791 | http://www.crustytoothpaste.net/~bmc | My opinion only OpenPGP: RSA v4 4096b: 88AC E9B2 9196 305B A994 7552 F1BA 225C 0223 B187
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