Bug#601977: cyrus-sasl2-heimdal-dbg: file conflict during upgrade from lenny

[Bill Allombert]

On Sun, Oct 31, 2010 at 03:42:29PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> Package: cyrus-sasl2-heimdal-dbg
> Version: 2.1.23.dfsg1-6
> Severity: serious
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Installing cyrus-sasl2-heimdal-dbg in a lenny chroot, then upgrading to
> squeeze, causes:
> Preparing to replace cyrus-sasl2-heimdal-dbg 2.1.22.dfsg1-23+lenny1 (using .../cyrus-sasl2-heimdal-dbg_2.1.23.dfsg1-6_amd64.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement cyrus-sasl2-heimdal-dbg ...
> Preparing to replace cyrus-sasl2-dbg 2.1.22.dfsg1-23+lenny1 (using .../cyrus-sasl2-dbg_2.1.23.dfsg1-6_amd64.deb) ...
> Unpacking replacement cyrus-sasl2-dbg ...
> dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/cyrus-sasl2-dbg_2.1.23.dfsg1-6_amd64.deb (--unpack):
>  trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/sasl2/libgssapiv2.so.2.0.23', which is also in package cyrus-sasl2-heimdal-dbg 2.1.23.dfsg1-6
> configured to not write apport reports
> dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)

The correct fix for #601977 is for
cyrus-sasl2-mit-dbg and cyrus-sasl2-heimdal-dbg to Replaces: cyrus-sasl2-dbg.
Neither Pre-depends nor Conflicts, nor adding more Depends are going to fix it.

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe at debian.org>

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