[Debichem-devel] Bug#922287: msxpertsuite-massxpert: missing Breaks+Replaces: massxpert

[Andreas Beckmann]

Package: msxpertsuite-massxpert
Version: 5.8.5-1
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
'stable'.
It installed fine in 'stable', 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#overwriting-files-and-replacing-packages-replaces

This test intentionally skipped 'testing' to find file overwrite
problems before packages migrate from 'unstable' to 'testing'.

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

  Preparing to unpack .../msxpertsuite-massxpert_5.8.5-1_amd64.deb ...                                                                                                                                                 Unpacking msxpertsuite-massxpert (5.8.5-1) ...                                                                                                                                                                       dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/msxpertsuite-massxpert_5.8.5-1_amd64.deb (--unpack):                                                                                                           trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/massxpert', which is also in package massxpert 3.6.1-1                                                                                                                                dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)                                                                                                                                                 Errors were encountered while processing:                                                                                                                                                                             /var/cache/apt/archives/msxpertsuite-massxpert_5.8.5-1_amd64.deb                                                                                                                                                  


cheers,

Andreas
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