[Python-apps-team] Bug#972610: getmail6: file conflicts with getmail

[Sven Joachim]

Package: getmail6
Version: 6.7-1
Severity: serious

Your package ships /usr/bin/getmail and various other files owned by the
getmail package, here is a complete list:

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| # dpkg -i --force-overwrite getmail6_6.7-1_all.deb
| (Reading database ... 13802 files and directories currently installed.)
| Preparing to unpack getmail6_6.7-1_all.deb ...
| Unpacking getmail6 (6.7-1) ...
| dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled:
| dpkg: warning: trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/getmail', which is also in package getmail 5.13-1
| dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled:
| dpkg: warning: trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/getmail-gmail-xoauth-tokens', which is also in package getmail 5.13-1
| dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled:
| dpkg: warning: trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/getmail_fetch', which is also in package getmail 5.13-1
| dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled:
| dpkg: warning: trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/getmail_maildir', which is also in package getmail 5.13-1
| dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled:
| dpkg: warning: trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/getmail_mbox', which is also in package getmail 5.13-1
| dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled:
| dpkg: warning: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/getmail.1.gz', which is also in package getmail 5.13-1
| dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled:
| dpkg: warning: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/getmail_fetch.1.gz', which is also in package getmail 5.13-1
| dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled:
| dpkg: warning: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/getmail_maildir.1.gz', which is also in package getmail 5.13-1
| dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled:
| dpkg: warning: trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/getmail_mbox.1.gz', which is also in package getmail 5.13-1
| Setting up getmail6 (6.7-1) ...
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A Conflicts with getmail would solve that, however I think it would also
be desirable to work out a transition plan for bullseye.  The getmail
package is not installable there, and dist-upgrades from buster are
going to remove python and its reverse dependencies including getmail.

Thank you for packaging the Python3 fork of getmail! :-)


-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.9.1-nouveau (SMP w/2 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)