[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#826684: staden, spin: error when trying to install together

[Tom Lee]

Thanks Andreas, appreciate you bringing this to my attention.

Complicating this: we're still in the process of getting spin through the
ITP/RFS process due to some licensing concerns with parts of the source
package, I think the package may have been accidentally uploaded today
instead of being rejected from the NEW queue. I'll follow up with the FTP
folks to get a sense of what's going on and try to get this resolved as
soon as I can.

Keep you posted.


On Tue, Jun 7, 2016 at 3:07 PM, Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org> wrote:

> Package: staden,spin
> Severity: serious
> User: treinen at debian.org
> Usertags: edos-file-overwrite
>
> Hi,
>
> automatic installation tests of packages that share a file and at the
> same time do not conflict by their package dependency relationships has
> detected the following problem:
>
>   Selecting previously unselected package spin.
>   Preparing to unpack .../spin_6.4.5-1_amd64.deb ...
>   Unpacking spin (6.4.5-1) ...
>   dpkg: error processing archive
> /var/cache/apt/archives/spin_6.4.5-1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
>    trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/spin', which is also in package staden
> 2.0.0+b10-5
>   dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
>   Errors were encountered while processing:
>    /var/cache/apt/archives/spin_6.4.5-1_amd64.deb
>
> This is a serious bug as it makes installation fail, and violates
> sections 7.6.1 and 10.1 of the policy. An optimal solution would
> consist in only one of the packages installing that file, and renaming
> or removing the file in the other package. Depending on the
> circumstances you might also consider Replace relations or file
> diversions. If the conflicting situation cannot be resolved then, as a
> last resort, the two packages have to declare a mutual
> Conflict. Please take into account that Replaces, Conflicts and
> diversions should only be used when packages provide different
> implementations for the same functionality.
>
> Here is a list of files that are known to be shared by both packages
> (according to the Contents file for sid/amd64, which may be
> slightly out of sync):
>
>   usr/bin/spin
>   usr/share/man/man1/spin.1.gz
>
> This bug is assigned to both packages. If you, the maintainers of
> the two packages in question, have agreed on which of the packages will
> resolve the problem please reassign the bug to that package. You may
> also register in the BTS that the other package is affected by the bug.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andreas
>
> PS: for more information about the detection of file overwrite errors
> of this kind see https://qa.debian.org/dose/file-overwrites.html
>



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