[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#836989: fontforge-common: fails to upgrade from 'sid' - trying to overwrite /usr/share/mime/packages/fontforge.xml

[Andreas Beckmann]

Package: fontforge-common
Version: 1:20160404~dfsg-3
Severity: serious
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: piuparts
Control: affects -1 + fontforge

Hi,

during a test with piuparts I noticed your package fails to upgrade from
'sid' to 'experimental'.
It installed fine in 'sid', then the upgrade to 'experimental' 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...):

  Preparing to unpack .../0-fontforge-common_1%3a20160404~dfsg-3_all.deb ...
  Unpacking fontforge-common (1:20160404~dfsg-3) over (20120731.b-7.2) ...
  dpkg: error processing archive /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-UtugTa/0-fontforge-common_1%3a20160404~dfsg-3_all.deb (--unpack):
   trying to overwrite '/usr/share/mime/packages/fontforge.xml', which is also in package fontforge 20120731.b-7.2
  Preparing to unpack .../1-fontforge_1%3a20160404~dfsg-3_amd64.deb ...
  Unpacking fontforge (1:20160404~dfsg-3) over (20120731.b-7.2) ...
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-UtugTa/0-fontforge-common_1%3a20160404~dfsg-3_all.deb
 

cheers,

Andreas
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