Bug#637975: iceape-browser: depends on iceape which conflicts with iceape-browser

Julien Cristau jcristau at debian.org
Tue Aug 16 21:19:33 UTC 2011


On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 10:06:10 +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 09:49:40AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> > Package: iceape-browser
> > Version: 2.0.14-6
> > Severity: grave
> > 
> > The traditional iceape-browser package is not installable because iceape
> > declares an unversioned Conflicts with it.  That very much defeats the
> > purpose of the traditional package.
> 
> Can you explain what your problem is exactly? I tested upgrade paths,
> and it worked. If you're not upgrading, why do you want to install
> iceape-browser when the package you want is iceape? If you are
> upgrading, please paste the error you get from apt. If this is only
> theoretical from the dependencies of the package, well, that was on
> purpose ;)
> 
Sounds like a silly purpose.  We don't ship uninstallable packages.

Cheers,
Julien





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