Bug#768209: libcerf-doc: fails to upgrade from 'wheezy' - trying to overwrite /usr/share/man/man3/cerf.3.gz

[Eugen Wintersberger]

Thanks for the report. I am traveling today but will deal with this
issue tomorrow. 

On Thu, 2014-11-06 at 01:43 +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> Package: libcerf-doc
> Version: 1.3-1
> Severity: serious
> User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
> Usertags: piuparts
> 
> Hi,
> 
> during a test with piuparts I noticed your package fails to upgrade from
> 'wheezy'.
> It installed fine in 'wheezy', then the upgrade to 'jessie' fails
> because it tries to overwrite other packages files without declaring a
> Breaks+Replaces relation.
> 
> See policy 7.6 at
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-replaces
> 
> >From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...):
> 
>  Selecting previously unselected package libcerf-doc.
>   Unpacking libcerf-doc (from .../libcerf-doc_1.3-1_all.deb) ...
>   dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libcerf-doc_1.3-1_all.deb (--unpack):
>    trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man3/cerf.3.gz', which is also in package manpages-dev 3.44-1
>   Errors were encountered while processing:
>    /var/cache/apt/archives/libcerf-doc_1.3-1_all.deb
> 
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Andreas
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