Thank you for your comment, Robie. I agree about Conflicts most likely not being required here. I felt it was conservative to add so as not to introduce a regression if both packages are installed. After some further looking into it, a regression is unlikely. The file in question is identical in both packages, unchanged upstream for 8 years, so it's safe to "overwrite" with the "newer" version: https://gitlab.com/accounts-sso/libsignon- glib/-/tree/master/pygobject So, in the end, the conservative thing to do is to allow anyone with the need to install both packages at the same time and do a Replaces only.
About the versioning, I also agree that in general it is a good idea to be more permissive and limit restrictions by versioning them. In this case, in essence the package name is already the versioning. Bottom line: Can you drop the Conflicts line in the patch but otherwise upload as proposed here? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to libsignon-glib in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1916250 Title: gir1.2-signon-2.0 needs to declare replace on older releases (Groovy2Hirsute) Status in libsignon-glib package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: gir1.2-signon-1.0 from groovy gir1.2-signon-2.0 from hirsute above two packages ship the same file /usr/lib/python3/dist- packages/gi/overrides/Signon.py without specifying how to resolve the conflict. Unpacking gir1.2-signon-2.0:amd64 (2.1-3) ... dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/gir1.2-signon-2.0_2.1-3_amd64.deb (--unpack): trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/gi/overrides/Signon.py', which is also in package gir1.2-signon-1.0 1.14+17.04.20161117-0ubuntu5 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/gir1.2-signon-2.0_2.1-3_amd64.deb E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) Probably needs a conflicts/replaces dependency added to the newer hirsute package. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libsignon-glib/+bug/1916250/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : touch-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
