Issue #23215 has been updated by Daniele Sluijters. Category set to Debian
---------------------------------------- Bug #23215: debian/control: vim-puppet and puppet-el erroneously declare conflicts with puppet https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/23215#change-100021 * Author: Daniele Sluijters * Status: Unreviewed * Priority: Normal * Assignee: * Category: Debian * Target version: * Affected Puppet version: * Keywords: * Branch: ---------------------------------------- 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. -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
