Bug#980846: kodi-addons-dev-common: missing Breaks+Replaces: kodi-addons-dev (<< 2:19.0~rc1+git20210119.8c761c4+dfsg1-2)
On 1/23/21 2:58 AM, Vasyl Gello wrote:
>> See policy 7.6 at
>> https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#overwriting-files-and-replacing-packages-replaces
>
> I think the Policy should be clarified stating that B+R must point to a version that has been accepted into Debian archive.
It doesn't have to.
> That was unclear for me to the dare because of
>
>> There are
>> B+R: kodi-addons-dev (<< 2:19.0~beta2+dfsg1-6~)
>> but that is the wrong version.
>
> kodi-addons-dev (<< 2:19.0~beta2+dfsg1-6~) was uploaded to NEW queue but rejected by FTP Master.
And then 2:19.0~rc1+git20210119.8c761c4+dfsg1-1 was uploaded without the
split and -2 was sent to NEW with the split, but the B+R were not
adjusted to cover the new unsplit version uploaded inbetween.
(If 2:19.0~rc1+git20210119.8c761c4+dfsg1-1 had contained the package
split and was sent to NEW, the B+R on 2:19.0~beta2+dfsg1-6~ would have
worked fine, despite of being hard to read in a few years: why is there
a strange version that never existed?)
> Mattia suggests just changing that paragraph to:
>
> kodi-addons-dev (<< 2:19.0~rc1+git20210119.8c761c4+dfsg1-2~)
Perfect, the '~' suffix is the backports-safe solution.
(Even if noone will backport the buggy -2.)
Andreas
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