Bug#951149: more info

2020-02-16 Thread Rene Engelhard
On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 06:15:34PM -0800, Peter Eckersley wrote: > I saw this on a sid system with dpkg 1.19.0.4 installed (piecemeal upgrades). dpkg (1.19.1) unstable; urgency=medium [...] * Add a new --no-rename option to dpkg-divert. This is the current default behavior, but it will make

Bug#951149: more info

2020-02-16 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, On Sat, Feb 15, 2020 at 06:15:34PM -0800, Peter Eckersley wrote: > I saw this on a sid system with dpkg 1.19.0.4 installed (piecemeal upgrades). But stable has 1.19.7 already. > But people might hit it while upgrading from oldstable to the next release? They normally should upgrade to a

Bug#951149: more info

2020-02-15 Thread Peter Eckersley
I saw this on a sid system with dpkg 1.19.0.4 installed (piecemeal upgrades). But people might hit it while upgrading from oldstable to the next release? It's a fairly annoying bug because (at least for me) it broke apt and required manual untangling once triggered. May be a more general problem