[pkg-go] Bug#977502: podman, golang-github-containers-common: both ship /usr/share/man/man5/containers-mounts.conf.5.gz

[Reinhard Tartler]

Hi Valentin,

I just received the bug below. It seems that the manpage duplication is
actually upstream:
-
https://github.com/containers/common/blob/master/docs/containers-mounts.conf.5.md
-
https://github.com/containers/podman/blob/master/docs/source/markdown/containers-mounts.conf.5.md

They both seem to have identical content. Maybe one of those copied should
be deleted? How do the fedora packagers get around this issue?

Thanks and best regards,
-rt


On Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 2:51 PM Andreas Beckmann <anbe at debian.org> wrote:

> Package: podman,golang-github-containers-common
> Severity: serious
> User: treinen at debian.org
> Usertags: edos-file-overwrite
> Control: found -1 2.1.1+dfsg1-2
> Control: found -1 0.28.1+ds1-1
>
> Hi,
>
> automatic installation tests of packages that share a file and at the
> same time do not conflict by their package dependency relationships has
> detected the following problem:
>
>   Preparing to unpack
> .../golang-github-containers-common_0.28.1+ds1-1_all.deb ...
>   Unpacking golang-github-containers-common (0.28.1+ds1-1) over
> (0.26.3+ds1-2) ...
>   dpkg: error processing archive
> /var/cache/apt/archives/golang-github-containers-common_0.28.1+ds1-1_all.deb
> (--unpack):
>    trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man5/containers-mounts.conf.5.gz',
> which is also in package podman 2.1.1+dfsg1-2
>   Errors were encountered while processing:
>
>  /var/cache/apt/archives/golang-github-containers-common_0.28.1+ds1-1_all.deb
>
> This is a serious bug as it makes installation fail, and violates
> sections 7.6.1 and 10.1 of the policy. An optimal solution would
> consist in only one of the packages installing that file, and renaming
> or removing the file in the other package. Depending on the
> circumstances you might also consider Replace relations or file
> diversions. If the conflicting situation cannot be resolved then, as a
> last resort, the two packages have to declare a mutual
> Conflict. Please take into account that Replaces, Conflicts and
> diversions should only be used when packages provide different
> implementations for the same functionality.
>
> Here is a list of files that are known to be shared by both packages
> (according to the Contents file for sid/amd64, which may be
> slightly out of sync):
>
>   usr/share/man/man5/containers-mounts.conf.5.gz
>
> This bug is assigned to both packages. If you, the maintainers of
> the two packages in question, have agreed on which of the packages will
> resolve the problem please reassign the bug to that package. You may
> also register in the BTS that the other package is affected by the bug.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Andreas
>
> PS: for more information about the detection of file overwrite errors
> of this kind see https://qa.debian.org/dose/file-overwrites.html
>


-- 
regards,
    Reinhard
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