Bug#879878: libgeronimo-validation-1.1-spec-java-doc: fails to upgrade from 'stretch' - trying to overwrite /usr/share/doc/libgeronimo-validation-1.0-spec-java/api/allclasses-frame.html

Andreas Beckmann anbe at debian.org
Thu Oct 26 18:44:20 UTC 2017


Package: libgeronimo-validation-1.1-spec-java-doc
Version: 1.0-1
Severity: serious
User: debian-qa at lists.debian.org
Usertags: piuparts

Hi,

during a test with piuparts I noticed your package fails to upgrade from
'stretch'.
It installed fine in 'stretch', then the upgrade to 'buster' fails
because it tries to overwrite other packages files without declaring a
Breaks+Replaces relation.

See policy 7.6 at
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-replaces

>From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...):

  Selecting previously unselected package libgeronimo-validation-1.1-spec-java-doc.
  Preparing to unpack .../libgeronimo-validation-1.1-spec-java-doc_1.0-1_all.deb ...
  Unpacking libgeronimo-validation-1.1-spec-java-doc (1.0-1) ...
  dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/libgeronimo-validation-1.1-spec-java-doc_1.0-1_all.deb (--unpack):
   trying to overwrite '/usr/share/doc/libgeronimo-validation-1.0-spec-java/api/allclasses-frame.html', which is also in package libgeronimo-validation-1.0-spec-java-doc 1.1-2
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   /var/cache/apt/archives/libgeronimo-validation-1.1-spec-java-doc_1.0-1_all.deb


Looks like the files are installed in the wrong path ...


cheers,

Andreas
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