Bug#1000895: exfat-utils: make package coinstallable with 'exfatprogs'

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

Package: exfat-utils
Version: 1.3.0-2
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

'exfatprogs' and 'exfat-utils' provide different implementations of the same
tools.
as a consequence (as they probably install the files of the same name), the
two packages declare a "Conflicts" situtaion.

this is suboptimal, as it breaks some dependency chains on my system
e.g. i want to be able to install 'forensics-extra' (depending on 'exfatprogs')
and 'exfat-fuse' (depending on 'exfat-utils') at the same time.

i think it would be great if both 'exfat-utils' and 'exfatprogs' could use
the update-alternatives mechanism to resolve file-conflicts and allow the user
to pick their preferred programs while having both packages installed.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bookworm/sid
APT prefers unstable-debug
APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'oldstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.15.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages exfat-utils depends on:
ii libc6 2.32-4

Versions of packages exfat-utils recommends:
ii exfat-fuse 1.3.0-2

exfat-utils suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

[Sven Hoexter]

On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 10:05:15PM +0100, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

Hi,

> 'exfatprogs' and 'exfat-utils' provide different implementations of the same
> tools.
> as a consequence (as they probably install the files of the same name), the
> two packages declare a "Conflicts" situtaion.

Yeah, I screwed that up for buster, see also
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=995772

The tl;dr is that exfat-utils should be removed asap, I'm waiting
for #992286 to be good to go.

> this is suboptimal, as it breaks some dependency chains on my system
> e.g. i want to be able to install 'forensics-extra' (depending on 'exfatprogs')
> and 'exfat-fuse' (depending on 'exfat-utils') at the same time.

forensics-extra is already fixed in unstable/testing, I guess you encountered
the issue on a stable system, right?

Sven