Re: [arch-dev-public] Automating package conflict resolution whenever possible (xorgproto/libxfont dependency conflict)

Eli Schwartz via arch-dev-public <arch-dev-public@archlinux.org> hat am 14. Februar 2018 um 01:48 geschrieben:

On 02/13/2018 06:56 PM, Baptiste Jonglez wrote:

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Hi,

Eli and I disagree about how dependency conflicts should be handled when packaging. This was prompted by the libxfont dependency conflict arising from recent xorgproto changes [1].

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[1] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/57495

Is there a reason you took a private disagreement to the public mailing lists:

So, uh, how often does this happen that we need to make a big fuss on the matter? The last manual intervention was nearly a year ago with ca-certificates-utils. If anything we should argue why there was no news post on archlinux.org Alad