[csw-maintainers] checkpkg: New feature: file collision detection

[Philip Brown]

On Fri, Dec 17, 2010 at 4:04 PM, Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski
<maciej at opencsw.org> wrote:
>
> You can continue building the empty CSWfoo_rt.  This way, you'll tell
> checkpkg that this package will be empty and will not collide with
> other existing packages.  In other words, creating an empty package
> can be used as a way to tell checkpkg that a package will be, or may
> be removed from the catalog.
>
> Therefore, it's a good idea to build the empty transitional packages
> even if nothing depends on them.
>

Errr.. i'd prefer you pick some other mechanism to do that.
And even if you dont, i'd prefer that you dont actually *submit* empty
packages that have zero other packages depending on them.
If this is a useful hack to use for "checkpkg, on the build farm",
then lets keep it "on the build farm", please.