[Pkg-javascript-devel] Bug#728561: node-carto: fails to upgrade from 'testing' - trying to overwrite /usr/share/man/man1/carto.1.gz

[Andreas Beckmann]

Package: node-carto
Version: 0.9.5-1
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
'testing'.
It installed fine in 'testing', then the upgrade to 'sid' 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 node-carto.
  Unpacking node-carto (from .../node-carto_0.9.5-1_all.deb) ...
  dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/node-carto_0.9.5-1_all.deb (--unpack):
   trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/carto.1.gz', which is also in package carto 0.4.6+ds1-3
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   /var/cache/apt/archives/node-carto_0.9.5-1_all.deb

Don't you need a transitional package to migrate existing users to the
new package name?

Anyway you need to add

Package: node-carto
Breaks: carto (<< 0.9.5)
Replaces: carto (<< 0.9.5)


cheers,

Andreas
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