Bug#881883: libnormaliz-dev-common: fails to upgrade from 'testing' - trying to overwrite /usr/include/libnormaliz/HilbertSeries.h

[Andreas Beckmann]

Package: libnormaliz-dev-common
Version: 3.4.1+ds-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
'testing'.
It installed fine in 'testing', then the upgrade to 'sid' fails
because it tries to overwrite other packages files without declaring a
Breaks+Replaces relation.

See policy 7.6 at
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-replaces

>From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...):

  Selecting previously unselected package libnormaliz-dev-common.
  Preparing to unpack .../libnormaliz-dev-common_3.4.1+ds-1_all.deb ...
  Unpacking libnormaliz-dev-common (3.4.1+ds-1) ...
  dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libnormaliz-dev-common_3.4.1+ds-1_all.deb (--unpack):
   trying to overwrite '/usr/include/libnormaliz/HilbertSeries.h', which is also in package libnormaliz0-dev-common 3.1.1+ds-1
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   /var/cache/apt/archives/libnormaliz-dev-common_3.4.1+ds-1_all.deb


cheers,

Andreas
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