Issue #19104 has been updated by Andrew Parker. Status changed from Unreviewed to Investigating Assignee set to Moses Mendoza
Moses, I've taken a look at the debian control file and it lists vim-puppet and puppet-el as conflicting with anything less than the version of puppet that they were generated for. After reading over the debian guidelines, I'm don't understand the reason for this. Would you be able to shed any light on this issue? Looking at the history, it seems like the Conflicts declaration has been there since the control file was created in by you on Aug 27, 2012. I bet it came from another location, but the commit doesn't clearly indicate where the rest of the history might be found. ---------------------------------------- Bug #19104: Unnecessary conflicts with Puppet 3 in vim-puppet and puppet-el packages https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/19104#change-84002 Author: Ken Johnson Status: Investigating Priority: Normal Assignee: Moses Mendoza Category: Target version: Affected Puppet version: Keywords: Branch: Per the Debian packaging guidelines the conflicts set up for these two packages with Puppet 3 are unnecessary. Full text of the report from one of our customers below: "There's a bug in the Debian packages. Vim-puppet and puppet-el are generated with: Conflicts: puppet (<< 3.1.0-1puppetlabs1) http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-conflicts section 7.6: Neither Breaks nor Conflicts should be used unless two packages cannot be installed at the same time or installing them both causes one of them to be broken or unusable. Having similar functionality or performing the same tasks as another package is not sufficient reason to declare Breaks or Conflicts with that package. Vim-puppet nor Puppet-el warrant a Conflicts clause in the control file. One could argue that vim-puppet is 'broken' when used with a newer version of Puppet because it might be missing keywords in its syntax file but it should not declare a conflicts for that." -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/my/account -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
