Hi,
as announced yesterday, I will now continue starting threads about different
bug categories detected by piuparts, with the aim to agree on mass filing
bugs with a sensible severity.
Today I picked another simple category: packages which failed the piuparts
test because the package tries to overwrite another packages files without
declaring a conflict or replaces relation. See policy 7.4 and 7.6 at
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-conflicts and
http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-replaces
http://piuparts.debian.org/sid/overwrite_other_packages_files_error.html and
http://piuparts.debian.org/squeeze/overwrite_other_packages_files_error.html
lists those packages.
Eleven packages in squeeze and ten in sid are affected. See below for dd-list
output.
If somebody disagrees that these bugs should be filed with severity serious,
speak up now, this weekend I plan to file those bugs.
Even though this is IMO again a pretty clear case of violating a mandatory
policy requierement, where the violation seriously disrupts user
expectations, I havent filed bugs yet, because of ENOTIME :-)
regards,
Holger
Guenter Geiger (Debian/GNU) <geiger@debian.org>
sox (U)
Andrew Lee (æ??å?¥ç§?) <ajqlee@debian.org>
stardict
Daniel Baumann <daniel@debian.org>
botan-devel
tryton-modules-analytic-invoice
Mathias Behrle <mathiasb@mbsolutions.selfip.biz>
tryton-modules-analytic-invoice (U)
Marcus Better <marcus@better.se>
ser (U)
Wes Chow <wes@senortoad.com>
sparsehash (U)
Debian Cyrus SASL Team <pkg-cyrus-sasl2-debian-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
cyrus-sasl2-heimdal
Debian Scientific Computing Team <pkg-scicomp-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
sundials
Debian VoIP Team <pkg-voip-maintainers@lists.alioth.debian.org>
ser
Fabian Fagerholm <fabbe@debian.org>
cyrus-sasl2-heimdal (U)
Anthony Fok <foka@debian.org>
stardict (U)
RISKO Gergely <risko@debian.org>
libmcrypt
Pascal Giard <pascal@debian.org>
sox
Gerber van der Graaf <gerber_graaf@users.sourceforge.net>
libgpiv
GRUB Maintainers <pkg-grub-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
grub2
Simon Horman <horms@debian.org>
pacemaker (U)
Kilian Krause <kilian@debian.org>
ser (U)
Rafael Laboissiere <rafael@debian.org>
sundials (U)
Jordi Mallach <jordi@debian.org>
grub2 (U)
Patrick Matthäi <pmatthaei@debian.org>
luckybackup
Robert Millan <rmh.debian.grub@aybabtu.com>
grub2 (U)
Mark Purcell <msp@debian.org>
ser (U)
Athena Capital Research <acr-debian@athenacr.com>
sparsehash
Anibal Monsalve Salazar <anibal@debian.org>
gdbm
pacemaker
Roberto C. Sanchez <roberto@connexer.com>
cyrus-sasl2-heimdal (U)
sparsehash (U)
Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi>
scratchbox2
Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar@debian.org>
libcgi-application-plugins-perl
Felix Zielcke <fzielcke@z-51.de>
grub2 (U)
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