Package: cron-daemon-common Version: 3.0pl1-143 Severity: serious User: debian...@lists.debian.org Usertags: piuparts
Hi, during a test with piuparts I noticed your package failed to install because it tries to overwrite other packages files without declaring a Breaks+Replaces relation. See policy 7.6 at https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#overwriting-files-and-replacing-packages-replaces >From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...): Selecting previously unselected package cron-daemon-common. Preparing to unpack .../cron-daemon-common_3.0pl1-143_all.deb ... Unpacking cron-daemon-common (3.0pl1-143) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/cron-daemon-common_3.0pl1-143_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/etc/crontab', which is also in package bcron 0.11-9 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/cron-daemon-common_3.0pl1-143_all.deb Selecting previously unselected package cron-daemon-common. Preparing to unpack .../cron-daemon-common_3.0pl1-143_all.deb ... Unpacking cron-daemon-common (3.0pl1-143) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/cron-daemon-common_3.0pl1-143_all.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/etc/cron.d/.placeholder', which is also in package systemd-cron 1.15.18-1 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/cron-daemon-common_3.0pl1-143_all.deb For bcron the conflicting file is only /etc/crontab For systemd-cron the conflicting files are /etc/cron.d/.placeholder /etc/cron.daily/.placeholder /etc/cron.hourly/.placeholder /etc/cron.monthly/.placeholder /etc/cron.weekly/.placeholder /etc/crontab These two alternative cron implementations need to start using cron-daemon-common for these shared files first before you can add the corresponding Breaks+Replaces against them. cheers, Andreas
