[Pkg-nagios-devel] Bug#351548: nagios-plugins-basic: should conflict with netsaint-plugins

[sean finney]

hi paul, joerg,

just going to add something more to the bug for
posterity (cc'ing nnn-done to keep it closed)

On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 02:50:13AM +0100, Joerg Jaspert wrote:
> > The problem lies within the lines:
> > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/nagios-plugins-basic_1.4.2-6_i386.deb (--unpack):
> >  trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_disk', which is also in package netsaint-plugins
> > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/nagios-plugins-standard_1.4.2-6_i386.deb (--unpack):
> >  trying to overwrite `/usr/lib/nagios/plugins/check_breeze', which is also in package netsaint-plugins
> 
> Thats too late. That old package is only left in woodys non-us, removed
> from the main archive for nearly two years now, so if one should
> conflict with something that would have need to be done in  sarge, which
> is obviously too late.

more to the point, this is a direct upgrade from woody to etch, skipping
sarge entirely.  this is explicitly unsupported in debian.  

the nagios-plugins packages in sarge actually *do* conflict with the
netsaint family of packages because they existed in the previous woody
release.  however, there's no reason for packages in etch to do the same
because sarge does not contain any netsaint packages.

so, paul: it might be a little late now but for future reference
upgrading one release at a time is likely to make such problems
occur less often.  


	sean

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