Bug#739663: Processed: libboinc7: fails to upgrade from 'wheezy' - trying to overwrite /usr/lib/libboinc_zip.so.7

[Andreas Beckmann]

On 2014-02-21 19:02, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
>>> I think because now boinc-dev is not a real package anymore, just a transition virtual package.

no it's not virtual, only transitional ...

>> This probably breaks if I torture-test it :-) And it will definitely
>> break in case you add a transitional boing-dev package.
>>
> 
> mmm this is something I don't understand,

with boinc-dev being a transitional package things need to be done the
correct way

> and moreover the problem is that I manually try to upgrade packages with "dpkg", and in this case I needed to add manually libboinc7 IIRC to the list.

Running
  dpkg -i pkg1.deb pkg2.deb ...
does not respect dependency ordering. You need to use a local repository
and apt-get install for "sane" upgrade path tests.

> So I don't know exactly how to test for this bug, this is why help is really needed ;)

Can you push the pending stuff (e.g. Replaces in addition to Breaks) to git?
So I can build the package from git and push it into my piuparts engine.


Andreas