Bug#916468: dune: /usr/bin/dune is already provided by the whitedune package

[Paul Gevers]

Hi whitedune maintainers,

On Mon, 7 Jan 2019 14:00:45 +0100 =?UTF-8?Q?St=c3=a9phane_Glondu?=
<glondu at debian.org> wrote:
> reassign 916468 whitedune 0.30.10-2.1
> thanks
> 
> Le 14/12/2018 à 20:24, Andreas Beckmann a écrit :
> > 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:
> > 
> >   Selecting previously unselected package dune.
> >   Preparing to unpack .../dune_1.6.2-1_amd64.deb ...
> >   Unpacking dune (1.6.2-1) ...
> >   dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/dune_1.6.2-1_amd64.deb (--unpack):
> >    trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/dune', which is also in package whitedune 0.30.10-2.1+b2
> >   Errors were encountered while processing:
> >    /var/cache/apt/archives/dune_1.6.2-1_amd64.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/bin/dune
> >   usr/share/man/man1/dune.1.gz
> 
> As discussed on debian-devel, I propose that the whitedune package drops
>  /usr/bin/dune, which is a symlink to whitedune.

Is anybody against dropping the symlink? If not, I can prepare an upload
to fix this RC bug. This bug affecting my package view3dscene, because I
use whitedunes files in its tests. I could drop the dependency but I'd
rather not.

Paul

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