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| From | Daniel Shahaf <danielsh@apache.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.bugs.dist, linux.debian.kernel |
| Subject | Bug#872263: [rb-general] Bug#872263: linux-image-4.11.0-1-amd64-dbg: file overwrite error upgrading from stretch-backports |
| Date | 2017-08-16 20:10 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <ufaVs-1YD-17@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
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Chris Lamb wrote on Wed, 16 Aug 2017 07:54 -0700: > > Still, it seems like there is a wider problem here: if the exact same > > code is ever built in two unrelated packages then their debug info > > packages will conflict even if the regular binary packages don't. > > I've seen this outside of reproducibility where I was shipping the exact > same binary in the redis-server and redis-sentinel packages (it changes > behaviour based on argv[0]). > > The -dbgsym packages then conflicted for the same reason. Stupid question, but why _do_ the packages conflict? Couldn't the package manager notice that the file versions that would be installed by each package are equivalent [= same name, chmod, and bit-by-bit contents], and keep the file existing so long as _either_ package is installed?
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Bug#872263: linux-image-4.11.0-1-amd64-dbg: file overwrite error upgrading from stretch-backports Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org> - 2017-08-15 15:10 +0200
Bug#872263: linux-image-4.11.0-1-amd64-dbg: file overwrite error upgrading from stretch-backports Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2017-08-16 01:40 +0200
Bug#872263: [rb-general] Bug#872263: linux-image-4.11.0-1-amd64-dbg: file overwrite error upgrading from stretch-backports Daniel Shahaf <danielsh@apache.org> - 2017-08-16 20:10 +0200
Bug#872263: [rb-general] Bug#872263: linux-image-4.11.0-1-amd64-dbg: file overwrite error upgrading from stretch-backports Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2017-08-16 23:10 +0200
Bug#872263: [rb-general] Bug#872263: linux-image-4.11.0-1-amd64-dbg: file overwrite error upgrading from stretch-backports Ximin Luo <infinity0@debian.org> - 2017-09-06 14:00 +0200
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