[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#739107: Bug#739107: python-fitbit: fails to upgrade from 'testing' - trying to overwrite /usr/share/doc-base/python3-fitbitscraper

[Iain R. Learmonth]

On 15/02/14 21:05, Andreas Beckmann wrote:
> Package: python-fitbit
> Version: 0.0.3-1
> 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...):
> 
>   Selecting previously unselected package python-fitbit.
>   Preparing to unpack .../python-fitbit_0.0.3-1_all.deb ...
>   Unpacking python-fitbit (0.0.3-1) ...
>   dpkg: error processing archive /var/cache/apt/archives/python-fitbit_0.0.3-1_all.deb (--unpack):
>    trying to overwrite '/usr/share/doc-base/python3-fitbitscraper', which is also in package python3-fitbitscraper 0.1-1
>   Processing triggers for mime-support (3.54) ...
>   Errors were encountered while processing:
>    /var/cache/apt/archives/python-fitbit_0.0.3-1_all.deb
> 

I appear to have copied and pasted the doc-base file from another
package and not changed all the fields.

Whoops. Fixing now.

Iain.

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