Bug#1102704: libg2c-dev and liblapack-doc have an undeclared file conflict on /usr/share/man/man3/second.3.gz

[Alastair McKinstry]

Agreed. Wil remove the conflict from libg2c-dev


Alastair


On 23/04/2025 14:49, Sébastien Villemot wrote:
> Le samedi 12 avril 2025 à 11:32 +0200, Helmut Grohne a écrit :
>> Package: libg2c-dev,liblapack-doc
>> Severity: serious
>> User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
>> Usertags: fileconflict
>>
>> The file /usr/share/man/man3/second.3.gz is contained in the packages
>>   * libg2c-dev/2.1.0-1 as present in trixie|unstable
>>   * liblapack-doc/3.12.1-2 as present in trixie|unstable
>>
>> These packages can be unpacked concurrently, because there is no
>> relevant Replaces or Conflicts relation. Attempting to unpack these
>> packages concurrently results in an unpack error from dpkg, because none
>> of the packages installs a diversion for the affected file.
>>
>> Please figure out which of these packages should properly own the
>> affected file and reassign the bug as appropriate. When doing so, please
>> add the other package to the set of affected packages using "Control:
>> affects -1 + <packagename>" to avoid the filing of duplicates.
>>
>> The other package should stop installing the file. In case the file is
>> being moved between packages, Breaks and Replaces should be declared. In
>> this case, please refer to policy section 7.6 for details. Another
>> useful resource is https://wiki.debian.org/PackageTransition.
> I notice that the version of that manpage in libg2c-dev is broken:
>
> $ man second
> man: can't resolve man3/g2c_message_info.3
> No manual entry for second
>
> Also, it seems that every field in the g2c_message_info struct has a
> (broken) manpage.
>
> So I’m inclined to think that it’s rather libg2c-dev that should remove
> the conflicting file. But I’m also open to the idea of removing it from
> liblapack-doc.
>
> Alastair: what do you think?
>
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