Bug#987461: libuima-adapter-soap-java is empty

[Hideki Yamane]

Hi,

On Mon, 21 Jun 2021 11:52:14 -0700
tony mancill <tmancill at debian.org> wrote:
> I saw the note in the changelog that Breaks is in fact there to remove
> the empty package, but it's not happening for me when I try to upgrade
> locally.  My test case is to install uima-utils (which will install
> libuima-adapter-soap-java via Recommends) and then try to upgrade the
> binaries to 2.10.2-4 using dpkg.  

 Well, it would remove libuima-adapter-soap-java if I've tested it
 on chroot env as below.

# apt install /tmp/libuima-core-java_2.10.2-4_all.deb 
(snip)
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  libuima-adapter-soap-java
The following packages will be upgraded:
  libuima-core-java
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/1513 kB of archives.
After this operation, 12.3 kB disk space will be freed.


> The only way I can make this work is remove libuima-adapter-soap-java
> manually.  Are you sure that Breaks is necessary?  apt-get autoremove
> will clean up libuima-adapter-soap-java at some point.

 Okay, libuima-adapter-soap-java is empty now, just manual autoremove
 is fine. 

> I took a look at policy to see if Breaks + Replaces should be used in
> this situation, but I'm not sure it really applies (although I think it
> would work better than just Breaks).  Still, I'm unsure about the need
> for Breaks for this empty package clean-up use case.

 I don't think "Replaces" to be used in this situation since it
 does not provide any fuctions as same as previous one.
 

> Any concerns if I drop the Breaks before the upload?

 None, please go ahead for bullseye :)



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Regards,

 Hideki Yamane     henrich @ debian.org/iijmio-mail.jp