Hi Andreas, This is an unexpected bug report.
On Wed, 7 Jun 2023 at 09:39, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > Package: unixodbc-common,odbcinst > Version: 2.3.11-2 > Severity: serious > User: debian...@lists.debian.org > Usertags: piuparts > Control: affects -1 + libsqliteodbc > > Hi, > > during a test with piuparts I noticed your package fails to upgrade from > 'lenny' to 'squeeze' to 'wheezy' to 'jessie' to 'stretch' to 'buster' to > 'bullseye' to 'bookworm'. > It installed fine in 'lenny', and upgraded to 'squeeze', 'wheezy', > 'jessie', 'stretch', 'buster', and 'bullseye' successfully, > but then the upgrade to 'bookworm' failed. > Can I ask why you’re testing from Lenny? And what piuparts command line are you using? In case the package was not part of an intermediate stable release, > the version from the preceding stable release was kept installed. > > From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...): > > ... > Selecting previously unselected package unixodbc-common. > Preparing to unpack .../22-unixodbc-common_2.3.11-2_all.deb ... > Unpacking unixodbc-common (2.3.11-2) ... > dpkg: error processing archive > /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-JsWDst/22-unixodbc-common_2.3.11-2_all.deb (--unpack): > trying to overwrite '/etc/odbc.ini', which is also in package > odbcinst1debian1 2.2.11-16 > ... > Selecting previously unselected package odbcinst. > Preparing to unpack .../25-odbcinst_2.3.11-2_amd64.deb ... > Unpacking odbcinst (2.3.11-2) ... > dpkg: error processing archive > /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-JsWDst/25-odbcinst_2.3.11-2_amd64.deb (--unpack): > trying to overwrite '/usr/bin/odbcinst', which is also in package > odbcinst1debian1 2.2.11-16 > ... > Errors were encountered while processing: > /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-JsWDst/22-unixodbc-common_2.3.11-2_all.deb > /tmp/apt-dpkg-install-JsWDst/25-odbcinst_2.3.11-2_amd64.deb > > The mentioned Breaks+Replaces may have been there in the past, > but on some upgrade paths originating in lenny the obsolete packages may > have survived without being affected by B+R so far. > > (In the concrete case, libsqliteodbc/lenny had a dependency on > odbcinst1debian1, libsqliteodbc/bookworm has a dependency on odbcinst > while in all releases inbetween there was no pdenedency on an *odbc* > package at all.) Wow. odbcinst1debian1 hasn’t existed for years. We’re only a few days from the release of Bookworm, so this will need to be fixed in the first point release. In saying that, the number of users impacted by this upgrade path must be very small. Hugh
