Bug#799340: #799340: breaks on upgrade?

Andreas Beckmann anbe at debian.org
Fri Oct 30 12:17:24 UTC 2015


On 2015-10-30 12:55, Alastair McKinstry wrote:
>> Package: libgetdata-doc
>> Source: libgetdata
>> Version: 0.8.9-3
>> Architecture: all
>> Replaces: libgetdata-doc (<< 0.8.9-2)
>> Suggests: libgetdata-dev
>> Breaks: libgetdata-doc (<< 0.8.9-2)
>> Description-en: library to read/write dirfile data - API and standards
> documents
>>
>> You want to replace some other packages ...

Breaks+Replaces against the package itself is useless, you want to B+R
the packages that previously shipped the files.

> Can you explain further please? I've installed piuparts and run via
> sbuild locally and can't get any errors.

This bug may only show in a more complicated upgrade test with piuparts,
the logfile should have the command line I used.


Andreas



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