Bug#988286: plocate: missing Breaks: mlocate

2021-05-10 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 10/05/2021 11.29, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: The backup plan would possibly be that I move to updatedb.plocate.conf; I'm not sure whether I should cp updatedb.conf updatedb.plocate.conf in postinst (assuming it exists) or not. That sounds complicated. Or, yes, add breaks; there's limited

Bug#988286: plocate: missing Breaks: mlocate

2021-05-10 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 11:23:05AM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: >> What is a good alternative? Can I “give it back” to mlocate in prerm if >> mlocate is installed? > Looks like a '$foo-locate-common' package is needed owning the conffile and > its manpage and then have ?locate depend on it.

Bug#988286: plocate: missing Breaks: mlocate

2021-05-10 Thread Andreas Beckmann
On 10/05/2021 11.06, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 10:45:44AM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: Note that plocate is meant to be able to be installed alongside mlocate, so Breaks: is not appropriate. But they share updatedb.conf (they read it using the same code). what do

Bug#988286: plocate: missing Breaks: mlocate

2021-05-10 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Mon, May 10, 2021 at 10:45:44AM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: >> Note that plocate is meant to be able to be installed alongside mlocate, >> so Breaks: is not appropriate. But they share updatedb.conf (they read it >> using the same code). > what do you expect to happen with updatedb.conf if

Bug#988286: plocate: missing Breaks: mlocate

2021-05-10 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Hi Steinar, On 09/05/2021 22.34, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: Note that plocate is meant to be able to be installed alongside mlocate, so Breaks: is not appropriate. But they share updatedb.conf (they read it using the same code). what do you expect to happen with updatedb.conf if both mlocate

Bug#988286: plocate: missing Breaks: mlocate

2021-05-09 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
forcemerge 976321 988286 thanks On Sun, May 09, 2021 at 07:01:07PM +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > The list of installed files at points (1) and (2) should be identical, > but the following files have disappeared: > > /etc/updatedb.conf > /usr/share/man/man5/updatedb.conf.5.gz If so, I

Bug#988286: plocate: missing Breaks: mlocate

2021-05-09 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: plocate Version: 1.1.7-1 Severity: serious User: debian...@lists.debian.org Usertags: piuparts replaces-without-breaks Hi, during a test with piuparts and DOSE tools I noticed your package causes removal of files that also belong to another package. This is caused by using Replaces