[pkg-fso-maint] navit needs libgps19, but libgps19 conflicts with fso-gpsd

[Gilles Filippini]

Hi,

Heiko Stübner a écrit , Le 26/12/2009 18:49:
> Am Samstag 26 Dezember 2009 16:27:19 schrieb arne anka:
>> as said in the subject already -- installing debian's recent navit pulls
>> in libgps19 -- and removes fso-gpsd.
>> research shows, that libgps19 conflicts with fso-gpsd (but _not_ vice
>> versa!).
>>
>> i am pretty sure, no such conflict existed before libgps19!
> it was added by Bernd Zeimetz (the gpsd maintainer) in version 2.90-1.
> 
>> so, what exactly cobnflicts and how is one supposed to use gps with fso
>> now?
> citing from bug #559483, also by Bernd:
> 
> -------------
> While it might be that this works at the moment because you're lucky,
> it will definitely break with the next upload of gpsd as the protocol changed.
> -------------

Actually we're still lucky: fso-gpsd seems to cope with libgps19.

> Which seems to be libgps19. So it seems until someone fixes the global issues 
> its either fso-gpsd or newer software using gps-functions.

Bernd will drop the conflicts in the next gpsd upload. But we'll first
have to wait for the kde transition. See #562592[1].

Until this happen the quick'n dirty workaround is to delete the
offending Conflicts line from /var/lib/dpkg/status.

Thanks,

_Gilles.


[1] <http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=562592>

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