[Pkg-scicomp-devel] Bug#557054: tulip-doc and libmesh-doc: error when trying to install together

[Adam C Powell IV]

Hi,

It seems that it would not be hard to resolve this by using
/etc/alternatives to select between the four files in these two
packages.  Here's what I propose (for postinst):

update-alternatives --install /usr/share/man/man3/std.3.gz std.3.gz  /usr/share/man/man3/std_libmesh.3.gz 10 \
  --slave /usr/share/man/man3/Point.3.gz Point.3.gz usr/share/man/man3/Point_libmesh.3.gz \
  --slave /usr/share/man/man3/Sphere.3.gz Sphere.3.gz usr/share/man/man3/Sphere_libmesh.3.gz \
  --slave /usr/share/man/man3/Triangle.3.gz Triangle.3.gz usr/share/man/man3/Triangle_libmesh.3.gz

and you can change _libmesh to _tulip, and we both undo them in prerm.
What do you think?

-Adam
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