Bug#1032915: guile-gnutls: missing Breaks+Replaces: gnutls-doc (<< 3.7.11)

Andreas Beckmann anbe at debian.org
Mon Mar 13 23:51:41 GMT 2023


Package: guile-gnutls
Version: 3.7.11-1
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
'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.
This error may also be triggered by having a predecessor package from
'sid' installed while installing the package from 'experimental'.

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 .../guile-gnutls_3.7.11-1_amd64.deb ...
  Unpacking guile-gnutls (3.7.11-1) ...
  dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/guile-gnutls_3.7.11-1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
   trying to overwrite '/usr/share/info/gnutls-guile.info.gz', which is also in package gnutls-doc 3.7.9-1
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   /var/cache/apt/archives/guile-gnutls_3.7.11-1_amd64.deb

The existing B+R: gnutls-doc (<< 3.7.9-0) are no longer sufficient since
sid got a newer src:gnutls28 upstream release that still builds bin:guile-gnutls
The (<< 3.7.11) is a guess and may need to be bumped in case sid gets
another new src:gnutls28 upstream release.

cheers,

Andreas



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