Bug#768216: libgeographic-dev: fails to upgrade from 'wheezy' - trying to overwrite /usr/include/GeographicLib/TransverseMercatorExact.hpp

[Ross Gammon]

Control: tags -1 pending

On 11/06/2014 02:15 AM, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> during a test with piuparts I noticed your package fails to upgrade from
> 'wheezy'.
> It installed fine in 'wheezy', then the upgrade to 'jessie' fails
> because it tries to overwrite other packages files without declaring a
> Breaks+Replaces relation.
> 
> See policy 7.6 at
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-replaces
> 
>>From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...):
> 
>   Selecting previously unselected package libgeographic13.
>   Unpacking libgeographic13 (from .../libgeographic13_1.37-2_amd64.deb) ...
>   Selecting previously unselected package libgeographic-dev.
>   Unpacking libgeographic-dev (from .../libgeographic-dev_1.37-2_amd64.deb) ...
>   dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libgeographic-dev_1.37-2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
>    trying to overwrite '/usr/include/GeographicLib/TransverseMercatorExact.hpp', which is also in package libgeographiclib-dev 1.21-1
>   dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
>   Errors were encountered while processing:
>    /var/cache/apt/archives/libgeographic-dev_1.37-2_amd64.deb
> 

Hi Andreas,

Thanks for reporting this.

I have uploaded a fixed package to d.mentors.net, and I am awaiting
sponsorship.

Regards,

Ross