On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 07:57:13AM +0900, Hideki Yamane wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 21 Jun 2021 11:52:14 -0700 > tony mancill <tmanc...@debian.org> wrote: > > I saw the note in the changelog that Breaks is in fact there to remove > > the empty package, but it's not happening for me when I try to upgrade > > locally. My test case is to install uima-utils (which will install > > libuima-adapter-soap-java via Recommends) and then try to upgrade the > > binaries to 2.10.2-4 using dpkg. > > Well, it would remove libuima-adapter-soap-java if I've tested it > on chroot env as below. > > # apt install /tmp/libuima-core-java_2.10.2-4_all.deb > (snip) > The following packages will be REMOVED: > libuima-adapter-soap-java > The following packages will be upgraded: > libuima-core-java > 1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 0 B/1513 kB of archives. > After this operation, 12.3 kB disk space will be freed. > > > > The only way I can make this work is remove libuima-adapter-soap-java > > manually. Are you sure that Breaks is necessary? apt-get autoremove > > will clean up libuima-adapter-soap-java at some point. > > Okay, libuima-adapter-soap-java is empty now, just manual autoremove > is fine.
Ah, I should have tested with apt. I see that it works fine. > > I took a look at policy to see if Breaks + Replaces should be used in > > this situation, but I'm not sure it really applies (although I think it > > would work better than just Breaks). Still, I'm unsure about the need > > for Breaks for this empty package clean-up use case. > > I don't think "Replaces" to be used in this situation since it > does not provide any fuctions as same as previous one. Agreed. > > Any concerns if I drop the Breaks before the upload? > > None, please go ahead for bullseye :) My apologies if using Breaks in this way is a common pattern. I am simply not familiar with it. If you have used the pattern before, I will upgrade the package as-is, since your way is cleaner. Otherwise, I will remove the Breaks. Thank you for the response. I will upload once I hear back from you. Thank you! tony
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