Bug#898306: [spl] Conflicts with splat, but should not

[D. R. Evans]

Antonio Russo wrote on 09/09/2018 04:00 PM:
> This is really bug 894608 again. The long and short of that is: uninstall spl.
> You do not need it (spl-dkms, on the other hand, is ABSOLUTELY essential).
> 

Thank you.

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Bug#898306: [spl] Conflicts with splat, but should not

[Antonio Russo]

This is really bug 894608 again. The long and short of that is: uninstall spl.
You do not need it (spl-dkms, on the other hand, is ABSOLUTELY essential).

Bug#898306: spl: conflicts with splat, but should not (was: splat: packaging error? : installation will remove apparently-unrelated packages)

[Ansgar Burchardt]

Control: reopen -1
Control: reassign -1 spl 0.7.9-3
Control: retitle -1 spl: conflicts with splat, but should not

"D. R. Evans" writes:
> Marked as important, since this problem prevents installation here, so the
> program cannot be used.
>
> Synaptic reports that installation of this package will remove:
>   debian-zfs
>   spl
>
> It doesn't seem likely that an application program such as splat could 
> possibly
> care one way or another that there are ZFS filesystems on the system, or the
> presence of the Solaris porting layer kernel module (which is needed for ZFS).
>
> Note that I am not actually trying to install splat on a ZFS filesystem: but
> there are ZFS filesystems on the machine.

The issue is that "spl" has "Conflicts: splat".  spl provides
/usr/sbin/splat, while splat provides /usr/bin/splat.

However "Conflicts" is the wrong way to solve this, see [1]: "Two
different packages must not install programs with different
functionality but with the same filenames."

Ansgar

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