[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#910811: xenstore-utils: upgrade error: xenstore-utils_4.11.1 unpack error with '/usr/share/man/man1/xenstore-chmod.1.gz'

[Diederik de Haas]

Package: xenstore-utils
Version: 4.11.1~pre.20180911.5acdd26fdc+dfsg-2
Severity: normal

while doing 'aptitude safe-upgrade' with today's updates, I got the
following error:

Unpacking xenstore-utils (4.11.1~pre.20180911.5acdd26fdc+dfsg-2) over (4.8.3+xsa267+shim4.10.1+xsa267-1+deb9u9) ...
dpkg: error processing archive /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-NA96TI/4-xenstore-utils_4.11.1~pre.20180911.5acdd26fdc+dfsg-2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
 trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man1/xenstore-chmod.1.gz', which is also in package xen-utils-common 4.8.3+xsa267+shim4.10.1+xsa267-1+deb9u9
Preparing to unpack .../5-xen-utils-common_4.11.1~pre.20180911.5acdd26fdc+dfsg-2_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking xen-utils-common (4.11.1~pre.20180911.5acdd26fdc+dfsg-2) over (4.8.3+xsa267+shim4.10.1+xsa267-1+deb9u9) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-NA96TI/4-xenstore-utils_4.11.1~pre.20180911.5acdd26fdc+dfsg-2_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Doing another 'aptitude safe-upgrade' directly thereafter succeeded,
hence (only) severity normal.

My guess would be a missing breaks/replaces issue.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: buster/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (101, 'experimental'), (1, 'experimental-debug')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.18.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages xenstore-utils depends on:
ii  libc6            2.27-6
ii  libxenstore3.0   4.11.1~pre.20180911.5acdd26fdc+dfsg-2
ii  libxentoolcore1  4.11.1~pre.20180911.5acdd26fdc+dfsg-2

xenstore-utils recommends no packages.

Versions of packages xenstore-utils suggests:
pn  xen-doc  <none>

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