[Debian-ha-maintainers] Bug#809764: Bug#809764: libqb6-dev and libqb-dev: error when trying to install together

[Christoph Berg]

Re: Herbert Fortes (hpfn) 2016-01-04 <5689AC0B.4050008 at ig.com.br>
> >This is a serious bug as it makes installation fail, and violates
> >sections 7.6.1 and 10.1 of the policy. An optimal solution would
> >consist in only one of the packages installing that file, and renaming
> >or removing the file in the other package. Depending on the
> >circumstances you might also consider Replace relations or file
> >diversions. If the conflicting situation cannot be resolved then, as a
> >last resort, the two packages have to declare a mutual
> >Conflict. Please take into account that Replaces, Conflicts and
> >diversions should only be used when packages provide different
> >implementations for the same functionality.
> 
> As I understand, 'Conflicts' can be a solution. The packages
> are for complete different use. And they are *-dev packages.

Policy says Conflicts should be avoided if the packages are doing
something different. It would be bad user experience if a system
running pacemaker/corosync couldn't have the webcamoid stuff installed
in parallel.

Though given the problem is only between -dev packages, I'd guess
using Conflicts would be okayish.

As webcamoid is the newer package, the problem should probably first
fixed on that side. Herbert, can you arrange that?

Christoph
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