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Bug#874421: python3-cliapp: fails to upgrade from 'stretch' - trying to overwrite /usr/share/man/man5/cliapp.5.gz

From Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>
Newsgroups linux.debian.bugs.rc
Subject Bug#874421: python3-cliapp: fails to upgrade from 'stretch' - trying to overwrite /usr/share/man/man5/cliapp.5.gz
Date 2018-07-05 16:40 +0200
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On Thu, 2018-07-05 at 15:06 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> But the upgrade path from stretch is not clean:
> 
>   Selecting previously unselected package python3-cliapp.
>   Preparing to unpack .../python3-cliapp_1.20170827-1_all.deb ...
>   Unpacking python3-cliapp (1.20170827-1) ...
>   dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/python3-cliapp_1.20170827-1_all.deb (--unpack):
>    trying to overwrite '/usr/share/man/man5/cliapp.5.gz', which is also in package python-cliapp 1.20160724-2
>   Errors were encountered while processing:
>    /var/cache/apt/archives/python3-cliapp_1.20170827-1_all.deb
> 
> So you will need some Breaks and Replaces against the old
> package in stretch.

I see the problem now. I was confused by you calling it an upgrade problem,
when it isn't. It's a problem with one package containing the same file as
another package, and the two packages are only tangentially related.

It doesn't seem to me to be a particularly likely scenario, to me. A user
would need to change their sources.list to point from stretch to buster,
and then not upgrade anything else, but install python3-cliapp.

I'll add the Breaks and Replaces some day. Or have all of cliapp removed
from Debian.

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Bug#874421: python3-cliapp: fails to upgrade from 'stretch' - trying to overwrite /usr/share/man/man5/cliapp.5.gz Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> - 2018-07-05 12:00 +0200
  Bug#874421: python3-cliapp: fails to upgrade from 'stretch' - trying to overwrite /usr/share/man/man5/cliapp.5.gz Andreas Beckmann <anbe@debian.org> - 2018-07-05 15:10 +0200
    Bug#874421: python3-cliapp: fails to upgrade from 'stretch' - trying to overwrite /usr/share/man/man5/cliapp.5.gz Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> - 2018-07-05 16:40 +0200
      Bug#874421: python3-cliapp: fails to upgrade from 'stretch' - trying to overwrite /usr/share/man/man5/cliapp.5.gz Niels Thykier <niels@thykier.net> - 2018-08-12 09:50 +0200
      Bug#874421: python3-cliapp: fails to upgrade from 'stretch' - trying to overwrite /usr/share/man/man5/cliapp.5.gz Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi> - 2018-08-12 15:10 +0200

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