Bug#482894: Please, open again the bug

[Reinhard Tartler]

Fabian Greffrath <greffrath at leat.rub.de> writes:

> Reinhard Tartler schrieb:
>>> should we add Conflicts against libav* (>> 3:20080706) to all our
>>> library packages or is this a crazy idea?
>> no, this won't work. we cannot conflict against our own packages.
>
> Sure, but how about our libavutil pakage Conflicting against all of
> Marillat's packages except libavutil itself? All our packages depend on
> libavutil, so this would solve half the problem.

then our libavutil would conflict against our other packages. I don't
think this will work.

> We could do the same for our libavcodec package (conflicting against
> all of Marillat's packages except libavcodec itself). This should fix
> many of the problems, or do I miss anything?

I think this will result in uninstallable packages, unless I didn't
misunderstood your proposal.

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Reinhard Tartler, KeyID 945348A4