[Pkg-electronics-devel] Bug#994921: librnd3-dev: missing Breaks+Replaces: librnd-dev

[Andreas Beckmann]

Package: librnd3-dev
Version: 3.0.0-2
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
'bullseye'.
It installed fine in 'bullseye', 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

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

  Preparing to unpack .../librnd3-dev_3.0.0-2_amd64.deb ...
  Unpacking librnd3-dev (3.0.0-2) ...
  dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/librnd3-dev_3.0.0-2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
   trying to overwrite '/usr/include/librnd/config.h', which is also in package librnd-dev 2.3.1-1
  dpkg-deb: error: paste subprocess was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   /var/cache/apt/archives/librnd3-dev_3.0.0-2_amd64.deb

I'm not sure whether it would be helpful, but a (versioned?)
  Provides: librnd-dev (= ${binary:Version})
could ease upgrading from librnd-dev to librnd3-dev.

BTW, why has the -dev package been renamed from librnd-dev to librnd3-dev?
It's not for co-installability of new and old versions since librnd-dev
was removed from sid.


cheers,

Andreas
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