Bug#679705: supercollider-common: fails to upgrade from 'testing' - trying to overwrite /usr/share/SuperCollider/Extensions/README

[Felipe Sateler]

On Sat, Jun 30, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> wrote:
> Package: supercollider,supercollider-common
> Version: 1:3.5.2-1
> 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
> 'testing'.
> It installed fine in 'testing', then the upgrade to 'sid' fails
> because it tries to overwrite other packages files without declaring a
> Breaks/Replaces relation.
>
> See policy 7.6 at
> http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-replaces
>
> >From the attached log (scroll to the bottom...):
>
>   Preparing to replace supercollider 1:3.4.5-1 (using .../supercollider_1%3a3.5.2-1_amd64.deb) ...
>   Unpacking replacement supercollider ...
>   Preparing to replace supercollider-common 1:3.4.5-1 (using .../supercollider-common_1%3a3.5.2-1_all.deb) ...
>   Unpacking replacement supercollider-common ...
>   dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/supercollider-common_1%3a3.5.2-1_all.deb (--unpack):
>    trying to overwrite '/usr/share/SuperCollider/Extensions/README', which is also in package supercollider-server 1:3.4.5-1
>   dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe)
>   Preparing to replace supercollider-server 1:3.4.5-1 (using .../supercollider-server_1%3a3.5.2-1_amd64.deb) ...
>   Unpacking replacement supercollider-server ...
>   Errors were encountered while processing:
>    /var/cache/apt/archives/supercollider-common_1%3a3.5.2-1_all.deb

Doh! This was supposed to be already fixed:

% apt-cache show supercollider-common | grep 'Breaks\|Replaces'
Replaces: supercollider-doc, supercollider-server (<< 3.5)
Breaks: supercollider-server (<< 3.5)


The attentive reader will notice the lack of epoch in the relations...
Fixed in git.

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler