[DRE-maint] Bug#834120: ghi: File conflict with the removed github-cli package: /usr/bin/ghi

[Axel Beckert]

Package: ghi
Version: 1.2.0-1
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

on a Sid machine maintained for a long time with a few packages still
installed which have been removed from the archive, I ran into the
following file conflict:

Unpacking ghi (1.2.0-1) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/ghi_1.2.0-1_all.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/ghi', which is also in package github-cli 1.0.0-1+nmu1

Since github-cli has been removed from unstable about 1.5 years ago and
was not part of the Jessie release, this issue only happens if someone
hasn't removed the package from his machine (either in unstable/testing
or after the dist-upgrade from wheezy and jessie) and is hence only
helpful as a hint for those people (hence the severity wishlist).

I suggest to add an unversioned Breaks + Replaces on github-cli, but I
understand if you do not want to support such (probably not that
frequent) setups. Feel free to close the bug report as "wontfix" in the
latter case.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (600, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'buildd-unstable'), (110, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'buildd-experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages ghi depends on:
ii  git               1:2.8.1-1
ii  ruby              1:2.3.0+4
ii  ruby-pygments.rb  0.6.3-2

Versions of packages ghi recommends:
ii  less  481-2.1
ii  most  5.0.0a-2.5

ghi suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information