Re: Bug#1057199: debian-policy: express more clearly that Conflicts to not reliably prevent concurrent unpacks
Sean Whitton <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.linux.debian.apt.devel,gmane.linux.debian.devel.dpkg.general |
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Hello, On Fri 01 Dec 2023 at 02:11pm +01, Helmut Grohne wrote: > §7.4 currently starts with: > > When one binary package declares a conflict with another using a > Conflicts field, dpkg will refuse to allow them to be unpacked on > the system at the same time. > > I believe this is technically wrong. There are situations where dpkg > will allow such unpacks to temporarily co-exist. §6.6 goes into further > detail and is accurate. Thank you for the detailed report. Do the dpkg and apt people think that the bug here is just in Policy, or are there any code changes under consideration in response to this work? -- Sean Whitton
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