Ritesh, the conflict was in fact added in Debian experimental:
pm-utils (1.4.1-2) experimental; urgency=low
[ Matt Zimmerman ]
* debian/control: Conflicts/Replaces: laptop-mode-tools, as both ship
/usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/laptop-mode and the changelog below indicates
these two packages should not be used together anyway. (LP: #606160)
-- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Sun, 22 Aug 2010 17:21:49 +0200
pm-utils (1.4.1-1) experimental; urgency=low
[ Michael Biebl ]
* New upstream release. (Closes: #588587)
The main improvement is that this ships some generally useful power
management hooks by default. Note that this conflicts with similar
packages such as laptop-mode-tools or pm-utils-powersave-policy, so you
should not enable them and pm-utils at the same time.
[...]
Thus this is going to have to be resolved in Debian as well at some point ...
Ritesh, the conflict was in fact added in Debian experimental:
pm-utils (1.4.1-2) experimental; urgency=low
[ Matt Zimmerman ] lib/pm- utils/power. d/laptop- mode and the changelog below indicates
* debian/control: Conflicts/Replaces: laptop-mode-tools, as both ship
/usr/
these two packages should not be used together anyway. (LP: #606160)
-- Martin Pitt <email address hidden> Sun, 22 Aug 2010 17:21:49 +0200
pm-utils (1.4.1-1) experimental; urgency=low
[ Michael Biebl ] powersave- policy, so you
* New upstream release. (Closes: #588587)
The main improvement is that this ships some generally useful power
management hooks by default. Note that this conflicts with similar
packages such as laptop-mode-tools or pm-utils-
should not enable them and pm-utils at the same time.
[...]
Thus this is going to have to be resolved in Debian as well at some point ...