[Pkg-emacsen-addons] Bug#880900: irony-server: fails to upgrade from 'testing' - trying to overwrite /usr/bin/irony-server

[Nicholas D Steeves]

Hi Andreas,

Thanks for the bug report, and sorry I missed this serious issue.
It's fixed in git.  I will wait to upload until I hear your opinion of
#880669 and #880670.  Summary of those bugs: Self-tests that were not
run for irony-mode-0.2.0-1+b3 fail for mips64el and arm64.

Do you think that uploading a 1.2.0-2 that fixes this bug and
downgrading the severity those other two provides the greatest benefit
to the greatest number of users?  eg: most users are amd64, and the
new package is validated on amd64 by self-tests that didn't exist
before.  The easiest thing to do is to just disable self-tests and
restore behaviour of the old package, but I don't think that's the
best approach...

Cheers,
Nicholas

On Sun, Nov 05, 2017 at 03:09:32PM +0100, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> during a test with piuparts I noticed your package fails to upgrade from
> 'testing'.
> It installed fine in 'testing', 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#s-replaces
> 
> From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...):
> 
>   Selecting previously unselected package irony-server.
>   Preparing to unpack .../irony-server_1.2.0-1_amd64.deb ...
>   Unpacking irony-server (1.2.0-1) ...
>   dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/irony-server_1.2.0-1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
>    trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/irony-server', which is also in package irony-mode 0.2.0-1+b3
>   Errors were encountered while processing:
>    /var/cache/apt/archives/irony-server_1.2.0-1_amd64.deb
> 
> 
> cheers,
> 
> Andreas


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