Bug#623054: libhttp-date-perl: undeclared conflict with libwww5.808-perl

[Jonathan Nieder]

tags 623054 + experimental
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Hi again,

Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> Typical kfreebsd-amd64 experimental system.  From today's upgrade
> (transcribed by hand, alas):
>
> | Unpacking libhttp-date-perl (from .../libhttp-date-perl_6.00-1_all.deb) ...
> | dpkg: error processing //var/cache/apt/archives/libhttp-date-perl_6.00-1_all.deb (--install):
> |  trying to overwrite '/usr/share/perl5/HTTP/Date.pm', which is also in package libwww5.808-perl 5.808-4
> | Errors were encountered while processing:
> |  //var/cache/apt/archives/libhttp-date-perl_6.00-1_all.deb
>
> Perhaps there is a missing Breaks+Replaces.

While I would love a smooth upgrade path, another possible fix is to
remove libwww5.808-perl from experimental.  Luckily this never escaped
into the wild.