[Pkg-tcltk-devel] Bug#700501: tcllib: fails to install - trying to overwrite /usr/share/man/man3/string.3tcl.gz and others

[Andreas Beckmann]

Package: tcllib
Version: 1.15-dfsg-1
Severity: serious
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: piuparts
Control: affects -1 tcl-memchan tcl8.4-doc tcl8.5-doc tcl8.6-doc

Hi,

during a test with piuparts I noticed your package failed to install
in 'experimental' if certain packages from 'sid' are installed
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 tcllib.
  Unpacking tcllib (from .../tcllib_1.15-dfsg-1_all.deb) ...
  dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/tcllib_1.15-dfsg-1_all.deb (--unpack):
   trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man3/string.3tcl.gz', which is also in package tcl8.6-doc 8.6.0-1
  dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)

  Selecting previously unselected package tcllib.
  Unpacking tcllib (from .../tcllib_1.15-dfsg-1_all.deb) ...
  dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/tcllib_1.15-dfsg-1_all.deb (--unpack):
   trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man3/string.3tcl.gz', which is also in package tcl8.5-doc 8.5.11-2

  Selecting previously unselected package tcllib.
  Unpacking tcllib (from .../tcllib_1.15-dfsg-1_all.deb) ...
  dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/tcllib_1.15-dfsg-1_all.deb (--unpack):
   trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man3/string.3tcl.gz', which is also in package tcl8.4-doc 8.4.19-5
  dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)

  Selecting previously unselected package tcllib.
  Unpacking tcllib (from .../tcllib_1.15-dfsg-1_all.deb) ...
  dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/tcllib_1.15-dfsg-1_all.deb (--unpack):
   trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man3/fifo.3tcl.gz', which is also in package tcl-memchan 2.3-2
  dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)


cheers,

Andreas
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