[Pkg-emboss-devel] Re: EMBOSS 4.1.0 released

[Charles Plessy]

Le Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 10:21:58AM +0100, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> On Thu, 8 Mar 2007, Charles Plessy wrote:
> 
> >EMBOSS uses an obsolete version of libpcre and the current packages
> >based on the work of Matt Hope ship by default files which conflict
> >with debian packages.
> 
> What is the reason for the conflict?

This one:

Unpacking emboss-lib (from emboss-lib_4.1.0-1_powerpc.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing emboss-lib_4.1.0-1_powerpc.deb (--install):
 trying to overwrite `/usr/include/pcre.h', which is also in package
 libpcre3-dev

What is the role of those .h files ? Are they better placed in a -dev
package ? Moving or dropping it would open the way to non-dev emboss
packages in experimental.

I guess that I have to read Junichi's library packaging guide.
http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/libpkg-guide/libpkg-guide.html

Have a nice day,

-- 
Charles Plessy
http://charles.plessy.org
Wako, Saitama, Japan