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

[Jérémy Lal]

On 03/11/2013 02:25, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> 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)

Thank you, i've been careless with this renaming, which i could have
avoided. Previous version was outdated and maybe even did not work at
all, so it lowered my attention.

Jérémy.