* Ian Jackson ([email protected]) [140322 00:39]:
> (resending because of some 8-bit header damage)
> 
> Kurt Roeckx writes ("Bug#717076: libjpeg draft resolution"):
> > So if you really want to prevent using a supermajority, I suggest
> > you write is so that you at least don't mention the other package
> > by name but make it more general.
> 
> Seriously ?
> 
> > I also suggest you don't mention the name libjpeg-dev directly but
> > instead use words to describe it so that it still applies when it
> > needs to be renamed for whatever reason.

> In this particular case we have two packages both of which want to
> claim the libjpeg-dev virtual package name, which for technical
> reasons ought to be provided by only one of them.  Clearly this is a
> question of overlapping jurisdictions.

IMHO this is even one of the examples of the constitution for
overlapping jurisdiction:
| for example, [...] about who should be the maintainer for a package



Andi


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