Bug#673803: liblicense-dev: fails to upgrade from 'testing' - trying to overwrite /usr/lib/liblicense/0.8.1/io/gsf.a
Package: liblicense-dev Version: 0.8.1-2 Severity: serious User: debian...@lists.debian.org Usertags: piuparts Hi, during a test with piuparts I noticed your package fails to upgrade from 'testing'. It installed fine in 'testing', then the upgrade to 'sid' fails because it tries to overwrite other packages files without declaring a 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...): Preparing to replace liblicense-dev 0.8.1-1.1 (using .../liblicense-dev_0.8.1-2_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement liblicense-dev ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/liblicense-dev_0.8.1-2_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/liblicense/0.8.1/io/gsf.a', which is also in package liblicense3 0.8.1-1.1 dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe) Preparing to replace liblicense3 0.8.1-1.1 (using .../liblicense3_0.8.1-2_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement liblicense3 ... cheers, Andreas liblicense-dev_0.8.1-2.log.gz Description: GNU Zip compressed data
Bug#673803: liblicense-dev: fails to upgrade from 'testing' - trying to overwrite /usr/lib/liblicense/0.8.1/io/gsf.a
ACK'd - I'll patch this tonight, thanks! On May 21, 2012 10:22 AM, Andreas Beckmann deb...@abeckmann.de wrote: Package: liblicense-dev Version: 0.8.1-2 Severity: serious User: debian...@lists.debian.org Usertags: piuparts Hi, during a test with piuparts I noticed your package fails to upgrade from 'testing'. It installed fine in 'testing', then the upgrade to 'sid' fails because it tries to overwrite other packages files without declaring a 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...): Preparing to replace liblicense-dev 0.8.1-1.1 (using .../liblicense-dev_0.8.1-2_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement liblicense-dev ... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/liblicense-dev_0.8.1-2_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/liblicense/0.8.1/io/gsf.a', which is also in package liblicense3 0.8.1-1.1 dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe) Preparing to replace liblicense3 0.8.1-1.1 (using .../liblicense3_0.8.1-2_amd64.deb) ... Unpacking replacement liblicense3 ... cheers, Andreas
