Issue #23215 has been reported by Daniele Sluijters.
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Bug #23215: debian/control: vim-puppet and puppet-el erroneously declare
conflicts with puppet
https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/23215
* Author: Daniele Sluijters
* Status: Unreviewed
* Priority: Normal
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The vim-puppet and puppet-el packages have a ``Conflicts`` in them stating that
the package conflicts with ``puppet (<< ${source:Version})``:
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/blob/master/ext/debian/control#L125:L133
I don't see how installing a newer version of vim-puppet or puppet-el would
causing issues that would be resolved by apt per the ``Conflicts`` directive.
According to Debian packaging policy:
Conflicts should be used
* when two packages provide the same file and will continue to do so,
* in conjunction with Provides when only one package providing a given
virtual facility may be unpacked at a time (see Virtual packages - Provides,
Section 7.5),
* in other cases where one must prevent simultaneous installation of two
packages for reasons that are ongoing (not fixed in a later version of one of
the packages) or that must prevent both packages from being unpacked at the
same time, not just configured.
This also has the interesting side-effect that if someone has an older version
of Puppet installed for whatever reason and just ``apt-get install vim-puppet``
they'll get their Puppet agent upgraded for free.
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