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

[GUO Yixuan]

Control: tag -1 + pending

Hi,

On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 11:13:01PM +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> 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

I've just corrected our debian/control[.in] file, and had an successful
upgrade from wheezy to this current version.

The commit is at 
http://anonscm.debian.org/gitweb/?p=pkg-boinc/boinc.git;a=commitdiff;h=49f36c765fcde2a9cc9dd179fd9932a0c02af1b8;hp=ac94be23b771e086fcd15121a72f878325bd2bc5

Thank you for your kind help on this bug!

Cheers,

GUO Yixuan