On Sun, Aug 02, 2020 at 08:18:42PM +0000, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > Uwe Kleine-König commented on a discussion: https://salsa.debian.org/ukleinek/sparse/-/merge_requests/2#note_185155 > > There is still another issue that popped up in the meantime: > https://bugs.debian.org/966706 Hmmm, I think that a corner of my mind was silently worried it will happen. > The options are: > > - add a Conflicts: biosquid > (this is the ugliest option) > - rename sindex to something else > - convince the bioquid people to rename their sindex > - stop shipping sindex > > For now I will go for "stop shipping sindex", do you have an opinion for a long-term plan? [+CC to sindex's author] Not really. Would it be easy to install it under the name 'sparse-sindex' or 'sparse-index'? One thing I would like (in some future release) is to split the sparse package at least in 2: * one with sparse itself - it has no dependencies (except the libc, a compiler compatible with gcc and GNU make for the build) - maybe cgcc should be included in the package too (which would add a dependency on perl) * one with the others tools - but maybe it would even be better to the big ones in their own packages with their own dependencies) But this would not really solve the problem here. -- Luc
