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by petroseskinder 3181 days ago
That's fair. Whenever I think of dependencies, I imagine conflicts are fair game.
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Why? In Debian conflicts are usually only used to remove obsolete software from old releases.

Conflicts between packages which are both maintained should not happen. If two packages want to provide the same file, Debian can install both and has tooling to switch between them.