Files conflicts in ports

[Kubilay Kocak]

On 10/26/17 3:58 PM, L.Bartoletti wrote:
> Hi Rodrigo,
> 
> Thank you for this precious tool.
> 
> One question, seeing one of my ports which have conflicts
> (devel/py-gtfslib
> http://pkgtool.osorio.me/conflicts/lbartoletti@tuxfamily.org.html). Is
> it or not good to install test files?


They're all effectively upstream bugs: installing modules into shared
locations. 'tests' is a common enough module name that its one of the
most easily observed in practice.

There's nothing intrinsically wrong with tests being installed, but they
should be under/within their package module directories.

Most projects exclude them (from installation) with something like:

packages = find_packages(exclude=[...]),

Though doing the above for a project with this packaging 'bug' is not
really the correct solution. Maybe for a short term
files/patch-setup.py, but report it upstream

> Regards.
> 
> Loïc
> 
> On 10.10.2017 20:52, Rodrigo Osorio wrote:
>> Dear port maintainers,
>>
>> It appears that a number of ports install files with the same names at
>> the same locations,
>> causing file conflicts and unexpected behaviors for users.
>>
>> To help solving this issue I ran a tool to list per maintainer the
>> conflicting ports with
>> the list of impacted files ; the list is updated every day at 4am UTC.
>>
>> http://pkgtool.osorio.me/conflicts/
>>
>> I believe most of the conflicts are trivial and can be solved with a
>> proper declaration in the CONFLICTS variable.
>> So take a look at it and don't hesitate to come back to me if you have
>> questions.
>>
>> best regards,
>>
>> - rodrigo
>>