Bug#852846: forensics-all: Depends on conflicting packages: crack vs crack-md5

Eriberto Mota eriberto at debian.org
Sun Feb 5 23:10:28 UTC 2017


2017-01-27 17:36 GMT-02:00 Axel Beckert <axel at ethz.ch>:
> Package: forensics-all
> Version: 1.5
> Severity: important
>
> Dear Debian Forensics Metapackages Maintainers,
>
> forensics-all depends on both, crack and crack-md5. But crack and
> crack-md5 conflict with each other.
>
> forensics-all is though still installable, but only because crack-md5
> also "Provides: crack". (Hence not "Severity: serious".) But once
> crack-md5 decides to drop that Provides, forensics-all will become
> uninstallable.
>
> So please change the dependency on "crack, crack-md5" to "crack |
> crack-md5". IMHO that's the only variant which makes sense.


Hi Axel,

Thanks a lot for your message. I will wait for Stretch release and fix
this issue.

Cheers,

Eriberto



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