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Bug#942147: info: removal of info makes files disappear from texinfo-doc-nonfree



Package: info
Version: 6.7.0.dfsg.2-3
Severity: serious
User: debian-qa@lists.debian.org
Usertags: piuparts replaces-without-breaks

Hi,

during a test with piuparts and DOSE tools I noticed your package causes
removal of files that also belong to another package.
This is caused by using Replaces without corresponding Breaks.

The installation sequence to reproduce this problem is

  apt-get install texinfo-doc-nonfree
  # (1)
  apt-get install info
  apt-get remove info
  # (2)

The list of installed files at points (1) and (2) should be identical,
but the following files have disappeared:

  /usr/share/info/info-stnd.info.gz

This is a serious bug violating policy 7.6, see
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#overwriting-files-and-replacing-packages-replaces
and also see the footnote that describes this incorrect behavior:
https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#id13

The info package has the following relationships with texinfo-doc-nonfree:

  Conflicts: n/a
  Breaks:    n/a
  Replaces:  texinfo-doc-nonfree

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

0m31.5s DEBUG: Modified(user, group, mode, size, target): /var/lib/dpkg/info/texinfo-doc-nonfree.list expected(root, root, - 100644, 25866, None) != found(root, root, - 100644, 25832, None)
0m31.5s ERROR: FAIL: After purging files have disappeared:
  /usr/share/info/info-stnd.info.gz      owned by: info

0m31.5s ERROR: FAIL: After purging files have been modified:
  /var/lib/dpkg/info/texinfo-doc-nonfree.list    not owned


cheers,

Andreas

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