[Pkg-vsquare-devel] Bug#610933: libvdeplug3 declares a conflict with libvdeplug2

[Jonathan Nieder]

Ludovico Gardenghi wrote:

>                                          I'm not sure there is a really
> clean way to deal with this without uselessly breaking backward
> compatibility. It seemed cleaner than keeping 3:1:0 and creating
> symlinks .so.2 -> .so.3 or similar.

Makes sense.

> Uhm, ok. I started creating an "unified" copyright file but I noticed I
> was duplicating information by hand -- then I thought it would have been
> better to make without debian/copyright rather than to have to keep
> debian/copyright in sync with debian/*.copyright manually, with the
> potential inconsistencies this could generate. But if that's required I
> can do it.

Oh, that seems reasonable.  This seems to have been discussed recently
on the debian-policy list (search for "I don't think there's much gain
in relaxing this"):

 http://bugs.debian.org/556015#141
 http://bugs.debian.org/556015#224

If I understand correctly, it probably would not be too harmful to
allow the split-up style, but for simplicity policy doesn't allow it
currently.