[cvsnt] viewvc repecting cvsnt's ACLs

[Andreas Tscharner]

Tony Eva wrote:
> Flávio Etrusco wrote:
> 
>> Packages which depend on CVS unfortunately will install GNU CVS,
>> but if you install CVSNT the GNU CVS will be uninstalled and the
>> other packages won't "complain".
> 
> This always causes me problems - specifically, using Kubuntu
> (6.10/Edgy) and Kdevelop, which depends on CVS.  If I install CVSNT
> first, then KDevelop, it uninstalls CVSNT and installs CVS instead.
> If I then try to reinstall CVSNT, it uninstalls Kdevelop and CVS.
> (This is using apt-get from the command line, rather than adept.)

That's a problem with one of the dependencies of KDevelop: 
libcvsservice, which explicitly depends on GNU CVS. The maintainer of 
the Debian package promised me to change that and as for as I can see, 
it has changed on Debian unstable, but I don't know how long it takes 
until this goes to Ubuntu...

[snip]
> Can anyone tell me what is the right way to get Kdevelop and CVSNT to
> coexist happily?

Not at the moment, see above...

Best regards
	Andreas
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