Re: jessie: Problems upgrading openjdk-7-jdk with openjdk-7-source installed

[Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>]

Am 28.07.2014 um 19:25 schrieb Felix Natter:
> Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre@debian.org> writes:
> 
>> On 28/07/2014 10:41, Matthias Klose wrote:
>>> Am 27.07.2014 21:33, schrieb Felix Natter:
>>>> Sylvestre Ledru <sylvestre@debian.org> writes:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello Felix,
>>>>>
>>>>> On 27/07/2014 19:42, Felix Natter wrote:
>>>>>> hello,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I get this:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Preparing to unpack .../openjdk-7-jdk_7u65-2.5.1-2_amd64.deb ...
>>>>>> Unpacking openjdk-7-jdk:amd64 (7u65-2.5.1-2) over (7u55-2.4.7-2) ...
>>>>>> dpkg: error processing archive
>>>>>> /var/cache/apt/archives/openjdk-7-jdk_7u65-2.5.1-2_amd64.deb (--unpack):
>>>>>>  trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/src.zip', which
>>>>>> is also in package openjdk-7-source 7u55-2.4.7-2
>>>>> This is an RC bug. Could you report it?
>>>>
>>>> Done: #756226
>>>
>>> the advice was bad, and the bug filing too. The advice is missing an "after you
>>> checked the bug tracker for existing bugs", and you would have found #755126.
>>> And the severity for the newly filed bug is wrong too, there is no
>>> "functionality" bug.
> 
> Just to understand this: Which severity level do I use for package
> dependency problems? Is the 'important' from #755126 correct?
> To me, the bug makes the package unusable (but I guess not in the sense
> of https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer...).

this issue was filed with severity normal, then raised to serious (appropriate),
and then downgraded by myself to important, because I did value to reach the
security updates testing first. this was far more important than installability
of the -src package.

  Matthias